Thanks, Re: cron: how ? WAS: cron: why not?

["G. Crimp" <ye416@freenet.victoria.bc.ca>]

On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 06:29:39AM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote:
> also sprach G. Crimp (on Fri, 07 Sep 2001 07:34:41PM -0700):
> > 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.  The first will cause it
> > to run on the third, and every day of the week of every month.  The second
> > will cause the command to run on the third and on every Sunday.  
> 
> that's not true. the first part isn't. 30 8 3 * * will run only on the
> third of the month. either/or only applies when both dom and dow are
> non-*'s.
> 

Thanks.