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- From: johnson@euler.jsc.nasa.gov (Stan Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: correction re: cron problem
- Message-ID: <31518@adm.brl.mil>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 03:33:25 GMT
- Sender: news@adm.brl.mil
- Lines: 21
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- Earlier I wrote...
-
- > I have a program that I want cron to run at 4:32am on the fourth Sunday of
- > every month. I updated root's crontab to contain the following entry:
- >
- > #min hour daymo month daywk cmd
- > 32 4 22-28 * 0 /etc/my_program
- >
- > For some reason, cron has run /etc/my_program every day so far this week.
- > Am I missing something somewhere, or is there a problem with cron? I
- > tried killing and restarting cron; no change. We are running 4.0.1 on
- > a 4D-25s. Thanks for any advice..
-
- Cron actually ran my sample program only yesterday (22nd) and today, as
- if I had entered "*" for daywk.
-
- -Stan Johnson
- NASA / Johnson Space Center
- Houston, Texas 77058
- (713) 483-4692
- johnson@euler.jsc.nasa.gov
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