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On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 10:54:45AM -0800, Bruce Lane wrote:
> Fellow VAX'ers,
>=20
> 	I have a job in my crontab that I want to run once only on the 25th day =
of
> every month. The entry (NetBSD 1.5) looks like this.
>=20
> -=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D- <break>=20
>=20
> # 50     *       25      *       *       /usr/local/apache/conf/rc.monthly
>=20
> -=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D- <break>
>=20
> 	The reason it's commented out right now is because I discovered it was
> running at 50 minutes past every hour on this day (which is indeed the 25=
th).
>=20
> 	I only want the job to run ONCE on the 25th, every month. Is this even
> possible with cron? Perhaps I need to use at or batch?
>=20
> 	The man pages and my dead-tree archives haven't helped much.

specify the hour, like:

50 9 25 * * something

to run it at 0950 on that day.

Regards,
	-is



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