Re: how to schedule a job every alternate sundays in unix cron

From: Jay Hostetter <jhostetter_at_decommunications.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 08:50:57 -0400
Message-Id: <25937.338007@fatcity.com>

I'm not a Unix expert, but one thing you could do is schedule the script to run every Sunday, then within the script add some logic so that the script completes every other Sunday. For example, in ksh:

# Check to see if this script ran last Sunday. if [[ -a ran_last_week.dat ]]; then
  rm ran_last_week.dat
  exit
else
  # Create a file to signal that the script ran.   touch ran_last_week.dat
 <....rest of script >

Jay

>>> kommacnu_at_yahoo.com 07/16/03 09:09AM >>>
Hello All,  

OS: Solaris 2.8   

I have to run a backup script in every alternate Sunday.  

I cant find a way to submit it in cron.   

Can somebody help me how to setup a job to run alternate Sundays in unix cron .   

Thanks and Regards,
Srinivas  

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