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Re: [SLE] Pullin' my hair out... arrrgh
- From: Misty Stanley-Jones <misty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 10:51:40 -0500
- Message-id: <200408051051.40852.misty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sigh... if you run it every 6 hours and have it ask "Is it 18 hours yet?"
Every third time, it will be, and it will complete. else, it will exit its
cute little loop. Running a script != doing an action.
On Thursday 05 August 2004 09:59, 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
Every third time, it will be, and it will complete. else, it will exit its
cute little loop. Running a script != doing an action.
On Thursday 05 August 2004 09:59, 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
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