suvayu ali wrote: > Hi, > > I have been trying to figure this out but so far haven't had any > success. I want to run jobs weekly, every 4 weeks (i.e. monthly) and > every 52 weeks (i.e. yearly) on a specific time on a Monday. > > I tried using the 1/<n> notation > > 00 2 * * 1/364 /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot.conf yearly > 20 2 * * 1/28 /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot.conf monthly > 40 2 * * 1 /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot.conf weekly > > but trying to save tells me: > > "/tmp/crontab.yGETuJ":1: bad day-of-week > errors in crontab file, can't install. > Do you want to retry the same edit? > > However trying something like this works but then this runs on Sundays. > > 00 2 * * */364 /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot.conf yearly > 20 2 * * */28 /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot.conf monthly > 40 2 * * 0 /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot.conf weekly > > So my question is, how do I specify jobs to be run every 2/4/<n> weeks > on any arbitrary day of the week? Is that possible or do I have to > live with only Sundays or using dates instead of day of the week? > > Thanks a lot. Now I see, "fcron" can be configured for this purposes too. Franta Hanzlík -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
