Subject: Monthly Job, once-only: How?
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Bruce Lane <kyrrin@bluefeathertech.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 02/25/2001 10:54:45
Fellow VAX'ers,

	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.

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- <break> 

# 50     *       25      *       *       /usr/local/apache/conf/rc.monthly

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- <break>

	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 25th).

	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?

	The man pages and my dead-tree archives haven't helped much.

	Thanks much.


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Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies
http://www.bluefeathertech.com  // E-mail: kyrrin@bluefeathertech.com
Amateur Radio: WD6EOS since Dec. '77 (Extra class as of June-2K)
"I'll get a life when someone demonstrates to me that it would be
superior to what I have now..." (Gym Z. Quirk, aka Taki Kogoma).