Re: Unix - scheduling

• Roland.Skoldblom_at_ica.se on 07/02/02 00:43:19 -0800

> Hallo,
>
> anyone who has a good example on how to write in the crontab if you want to
> schedule a job to run every four week. Is it possible to do that in unix cron
> job schedule.

"Monthly" is doable. "Every 28 days" requires using at, or a more flexable scheduling tool. That or cron the job daily and have it decide whether 28 days have passed since it last ran (e.g., based on a time string stored in a file).

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