04-27-2009
crontab problem - wrong schedule
i have set the below one in cronta, expecting that it would run every fourth saturday for Jan, Apr, Jul and Oct,
but it comes out that it run everyday between 21 to 27.
Please help!!
00 01 21-27 1,4,7,10 6 my_job
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
gnome-schedule
GNOME-SCHEDULE(1) General Commands Manual GNOME-SCHEDULE(1)
NAME
gnome-schedule - GNOME GUI for users' crontabs
SYNOPSIS
gnome-schedule [option...]
DESCRIPTION
gnome-schedule is a graphical user interface that leverages the power of cron or anacron and at to manage a user's crontab file and provide
an easy way to schedule tasks. It supports recurrent tasks and tasks that happen only once in the future. The user interface translates
cron strings into human-readible form for ease-of-use, but also has an expert option for those familiar with the cron file format.
For documentation on interactive use of gnome-schedule, select the Help menu option while running the program.
OPTIONS
gnome-schedule supports the standard GTK+ and GNOME command-line options, most of which need not be used except in special circumstances.
To view a complete list, see gnome-schedule --help.
BUGS
There are currently no known bugs. If you encounter one, please report it using reportbug gnome-schedule.
SEE ALSO
cron(8), crontab(1), crontab(5), anacron(1), at(1)
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by David Moreno Garza <damog@debian.org>, and revised by Christine Spang <christine@debian.org> for the Debian
project (but may be used by others).
November 22, 2007 GNOME-SCHEDULE(1)