Re: cron: how ? WAS: cron: why not?
G. Crimp writes:
> Suppose one wants a command to run on the third of every month at 8:30
> am, and only then. Neither "30 8 3 * * <command>" nor "30 8 3 * 0
> <command>" will work according to the crontab(5) exerpt above.
"30 8 3 * * <command>" will run the command on the 3rd of the month and
only on the 3rd of the month. You are misunderstanding the (admittedly
unclear) man page. Look in /etc/crontab for examples.
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John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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