Cronjob bi-Monthly Setup
Maxime Alarie
malarie at processia.com
Thu Dec 2 21:51:22 UTC 2010
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[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of drew einhorn
Sent: 02 December 2010 16:30
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Subject: Re: Cronjob bi-Monthly Setup
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Maxime Alarie <malarie at processia.com>
wrote:
Hi,
This is my crontab Reference:
#Crontab Reference
# * * * * * command to be executed
# - - - - -
# | | | | |
# | | | | +----- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0)
# | | | +------- month (1 - 12)
# | | +--------- day of month (1 - 31)
# | +----------- hour (0 - 23)
# +------------- min (0 - 59)
What would be the entry of a bi-monthly entry? (every 2 weeks) Doing
it in hours is not very elegant. Should I Gio like this?
0 10 1,15 * * /etc/scripts/my_script?
Thanks.
bi weekly would be every two weeks, usually 26 times a year, sometime
you get 27 depending on the quirks of the calendar. Can't do it with a
cron job. Would have to write a script to submit the jobs individually
using at. Would be messy.
the above is semi monthly you get 24 runs a year.
bi monthly gets you 6 a year, every two months. Not even close to what
you want.
If the 1st and 15th of the month is "close enough" go with that. If you
have to satisfy a non negotiable bureaucratic requirement after you find
out some more of the fine print you might have to write the messy
script.
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Thanks. I am not worried of having 24 or 27 runs.. The script does a
find -mtime +15 and erase old backups J
Thanks to all.
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