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On 05/02/2015 21:19, Joseph wrote: |
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> I have a cron tab entry: |
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> 8 12 1-7 * 1 rsync ... |
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> I was under impression that it will run once a month on Monday but it |
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> seems to be running every day, why? |
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As Florian explained, crontab syntax gets weird when you use fields 3 and 5. |
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Basically, what you want to do cannot be done in a plain crontab. You |
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might be able to leverage anacron to accomplish what you want. |
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Otherwise, you must write a wrapper script that runs daily or on Mondays |
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and checks a flag file that it creates and only run once in a given month |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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