RE: Unix - scheduling

• "Hand, Michael T" <HANDM_at_polaroid.com> on 07/02/02 08:13:32 -0800

> Roland,
> crontab alone will not meet your needs. Hint: check the date command and
> MOD type fuctionality in a shell script.

The at command will normally take "number of days from now" as the when to run argument. Simply have the job re-submit itself and output an error message if at returns non-zero. This will give you one-minute resolution on the start times with arbitrary re-run intervals as required for you program (in this case, 14 or 28 days).

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