[plug] Crontab

Steve Grasso steveg at calm.wa.gov.au
Wed Sep 26 16:32:47 WST 2001


Hi Mike,

At 02:46 PM 9/26/01 +0800, you wrote:
>On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Steve Grasso wrote:
>
>> So Monday would be 1 and the syntax for every other Monday would be:
>>
>> 0 23 * * 1/2 script
>
>"Oh no it isnt."   (see my earlier post, or rtmp again)

Yup. You're right. A second rtmp was useful. Short of patching cron,
Andrew's idea of a file toggle seems the best bet. I've done that with perl
scripts in the past to achieve better than cron's usual 1 minute resolution.

Steve




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