Re: Cron, > 1 month but < 2 months

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 01:42:25 -0600, Christofer C. Bell wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 05:09:23 +0000, T o n g wrote:
>>
>>> Is there any easy way to schedule a job for a duration that is greater
>>> than one month but shorter than 2 months? Any duration will do, as
>>> long as it is easy to schedule.
>>
>> Mmm... I wonder if using steps values (*/*) in crontab could be
>> possible set a period of 45 days, that is, a task to be run every month
>> and every 15 days :-?
> 
> According to this page[1], the following works for that:
> 
> * * */45 * *     your_scheduled_task
> 
> I've not tried it myself.
> 
> [1]
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8769689/set-cron-job-for-every-45-day-to-execute-my-php-script-using-cron

Mmm, interesting!

I was thinking in using a combination of days and months (this is completely 
untested just an idea):

* * */15 */1 *     #task to run

Mainly because "man 5 crontab" says you can only use a range between 1-31 
for days and 1-12 for months but if that works it would be great :-)

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón