jackal@munsell.UUCP (Phil Hammar) (08/09/90)
In article <1990Aug8.185745.16606@iwarp.intel.com> merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes: >In article <19744@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>, curt@oce (Curt Vandetta) writes: >| I'm wondering if anyone has a way of making cron run a job on the >| first Saturday of every month? > >3 4 1-7 * 6 command > >to make 'command' run at 4:03am... adjust the first two fields as >necessary. Remember, the parameters are "and"-ed together. > From the SunOS 4.1 crontab(5) manual page (Quoted without permission): Note: the specification of days may be made by two fields (day of the month and day of the week). If both are speci- fied as a list of elements, both are adhered to. For exam- ple, 0 0 1,15 * 1 would run a command on the first and fifteenth of each month, as well as on every Monday. From this excerpt (and experience), the day fields are OR'd. If anyone know the real way to do this for SunOS 4.X, I'd appreciate the answer too. Follow-ups to comp.unix.questions. G'day, Phil Hammar -- Philip Hammar Sys. Admin. for AES of EPPS, a wholly owned subsidiary of E. KODAK Co. ...!{harvard!ima,uunet!atexnet}!munsell!jackal ph:(617)276-7249