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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cron - once a month during week days
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2015 08:13:33
Message-Id: 54D47761.8000303@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] cron - once a month during week days by Rich Freeman
1 On 05/02/2015 22:49, Rich Freeman wrote:
2 > On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >>>
4 >>> I was under impression that it will run once a month on Monday but it
5 >>> seems to be running every day, why?
6 >>>
7 >>
8 >> Basically, what you want to do cannot be done in a plain crontab. You
9 >> might be able to leverage anacron to accomplish what you want.
10 >>
11 >
12 > [Timer]
13 > OnCalendar=Mon *-*-1,2,3,4,5,6,7 12:08:00
14 >
15 > (ducks!)
16 >
17
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19 In my defense, I've never used anacron, I just have some idea of what it
20 can do by reading a man page here and there :-)
21
22 --
23 Alan McKinnon
24 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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Re: [gentoo-user] cron - once a month during week days Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>