[Gllug] Crontab schedule question

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 11:11:37AM +0000, Stig Brautaset wrote:
> On 17 Nov 2005, at 10:53, Kurt Goodliff wrote:
> >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.
> 
> I've never had to do this, but it seems hard using only cron. You may  
> have to add smarts to the program being run (or a small wrapper  
> around this program).
> 
> You should be able to solve your problem without adding smarts to  
> your program by using "at". Schedule two jobs; one that executes your  
> job, and another that schedules it and itself to run again in 14  
> days. "man at" for details.

Nooooo !! That would be horribly fragile. Just think what happens if
something fails and stops that 'at' job resubmitting itself.

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