man date is your friend, that said "date +%A" will spit out what day of the week it is now. The rest is scripting. On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 10:01, Scott H wrote: > >>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. > > 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 :) > > > > > . > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more > http://taxes.yahoo.com/ > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- David IS Mandala gpg fingerprint 8932 E7EF CCF5 1B8C 1B5C A92E C678 795E 45B2 D952 Phoenix, AZ (480) 460-7545 HP, (602) 741-1363 CP http://www.them.com/~davidm/