Cronjob bi-Monthly Setup

[Tony Pursell]

On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 16:14 -0500, Maxime Alarie 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.
> 
> 

See

man 5 crontab

this seems to say you need */2 in the month field for every other month.

Tony