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Thanks to all for the perl help. I don't have perl on my servers so found a program on the net, compiled it and did this:

#setup the datetime variables to get last night at 23:59:59
cc=`date...

How do I get the number of seconds since 1970, within a script, for the previous day at 23:59? I need this value to pass into a sql statement to cleanup records older than the previous day at...

I just checked and it worked perfectly. Many thanks for your expertise!

This is a great forum.

Here's what I setup before leaving work Friday:

j1="`find /apps/oasis/prdben/log -name "j1*log" -ctime -30`"
for var in $j1 ; do
rdist -c $var oasis@oastdby:
done

It still copies the...

How do I rdist a directory from one server to another, excluding soft and hard links?

current rdist syntax:

1 2 * * * cd /apps/oasis/prdsch/log; rdist -c j1*.log...

Thanks man. That's it!

I submitted a ksh script in the background last night before leaving work:

./ping_test &

When I came into work this morning I discovered that it had stopped running when my session timed out.
...

Thanks. I will test and advise.

I did as you suggested but get this error:

sh: test: 0403-021 A ] character is missing.

Here is my syntax (modified for testing today):

57 13 * * 4 [ `date +%e` -gt 8 -a `date +%e` -lt 11 ]...

Can cron run a script on the 4th Saturday of the month, every month? I don't believe it can.

Here's what I have so far:

30 5 24-31 * 6 <command>