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Operating Systems Solaris Crontab date setting problem Post 302707055 by beginningDBA on Friday 28th of September 2012 12:52:46 AM
Old 09-28-2012
Crontab date setting problem

Hi, i wanted to schedule a backup script to run on 7.30pm every 1st Sat of month MAR, APR, SEP, OCT.

Am i understanding it correctly? Because it doesn't seem to run according to the schedule i needed.
[30 19 1-7 3,4,9,10 6] = (7.30pm) & (1st to 7th day of the month) & (MAR, APR, SEP, OCT) & (Sat)

Code:
 30 19 1-7 3,4,9,10 6 [ "`date +\%a`" = "Sat" ] && <script>

does not seem to work properly also.



Thanks.

Last edited by beginningDBA; 09-28-2012 at 01:59 AM..
 

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