[sclug] cronicles

[Simon Huggins]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 02:09:29PM +0000, Simon Heywood wrote:
> On Tue,  8 Feb 2005 at 10:00:02 +0000, Simon Heywood wrote:
> > The next meeting of the SCLUG will be at the Back of Beyond pub in 
> > King's Road, Reading, at 19:30 this Wednesday.
> Sorry, that would be me not reading crontab(5) properly:
> # Send the SCLUG meeting reminder on the Monday before the
> # second Wednesday of each month at 10:00.
> 0 10 6-12 * 1  $HOME/bin/sclug-reminder

> Am I right in thinking that this can't be done directly with cron?

Doesn't look like it.  The manpage says when either day of month or day
of week matches it'll be run.

Can't you run it every day and get perl or something to check if it's
the right one?

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