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

[Scott H]

>>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?
>
> according to 
> man crontab this will run on the 8th through
> the 14th *and* every Sunday 
> which is why I wrote date checking as the
> beginning of the script. I have 
> not run this schedule myself so I am trusting
> the man pages to be right.

I am also trusting the same. 

> Make the first line of the script check for
> day of the week and exit if 
> it's not Sunday. <snip>

OK, thanks, and how does one write that?  (Sorry,
newbie at all this, I'm RTFMing, but haven't
found that yet)

/home/scott/sigs/thankyous/sincere.html  :)




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