[plug] Crontab

[Simon Scott]

	It is also useful to touch and delete files at the start and end of
a cron job. That way you can test whether the job is still active or failed
last time it was called.






	From:	Steve Grasso <steveg at calm.wa.gov.au> on 26/09/2001 04:29 PM
	Please respond to plug at plug.linux.org.au@SMTP at Exchange
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	Subject:	Re: [plug] Crontab

	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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