running a job on the 2nd Sunday of each month?

[Scott]

nah - just change that last * to a 0.  The 5th field is for the day of the 
week and 0 is Sunday.  You would end up with a crontab line that looks 
something like this:

0 4 8-14 * 0 /path/to/script <any parameters that may be needed>

What Patrick wrote stands - except now cron is checking the day of the 
week for you.  If its not somewhere between the 8th and the 14th and its 
not a Sunday, the job wont run.

scott


On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Patrick Fleming EA wrote:

> 
> man 5 crontab:
> 0 4 8-14 * * (user) run-parts script
> Minute, Hour, Day of month, Month, Day of Week
> Make the first line of the script check for day of the week and exit if 
> it's not Sunday. This crontab will only run on the 8th through the 14 
> which should be the only days a second day of the month could fall.
> 
> On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Scott H wrote:
> 
> > I can't figure out how to run a cron job on the
> > 2nd Sunday of every month, at 4am.  What would
> > that line look like?  Or is this not possible?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Scott
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