Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Thursday 05 August 2004 07:56, Misty Stanley-Jones wrote:
On Thursday 05 August 2004 09:10, Randall R Schulz wrote:
I'm pretty unfamiliar with cron and haven't been following this thread all that carefully, but doesn't Carlos' approach require complete enumeration of the invocation intervals? Is there a way to get it to say "repeat this three-day pattern indefinitely"?
Run it every DAY, every 6 HOURS. :)
6 == 18?
Randall Schulz
My question is, why 18 hours? Perhaps if the problem were better defined, we could provide a better solution. ...Cuz that's what the boss wants. He didn't ask if Linux could do it easily. :-\ Wish he had... I'd have told him cron is the BW & it is based on 24hr time periods a la 'days'. I'm running it in cron on a two/three-day cycle. Frankly, creating an elaborate solution is not the kind of time I want to spend on it. -- ...CH "The more they over-think the plumbing,
On Thursday 05 August 2004 11:07, James Knott wrote: the easier it is to stop up the drain." Scotty