[Gllug] Crontab schedule question

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 10:53:35AM +0000, Kurt Goodliff wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I need to configure a job to run every second monday at 12:00. I've got 
> the job running on a weekly basis at the moment but am a little confused 
> about how to get it to skip a week.

''every second monday'' - starting from which Monday ? Ie which is the first Monday
in your sequence ?

You are probably best starting it every Monday and having something in the script to
decide if this is an odd/even Monday.

> My shedule at the moment looks like this
> 00   12   *   *   1
> 
> I was thinking this should work, since it should action every second 
> occurence of monday
> 00    12    *    *    1/2
> 
> Could someone please confirm or correct this for please.
> 
> Thx in advance.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Kurt
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