[HPADM] Cron help

From: Whittemore, Dale (dale.whittemore_at_lmco.com)
Date: 11/25/03

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    I think I know the answer to this one but I wanted to check with the rest of you.

    Given the following line in the crontab file:

    min hour dom mon dow script to run
    00 18 1-7 * 0 /usr/local/bin/<script>
    00 18 8-31 * 0 /usr/local/bin/<script2>

    <script> will run at 6:00pm the first 7 days of the month then every Sunday there after?
    I tried the above in the cron starting on 11/20 and <script2> ran from the 20th thru the 23rd before I caught it.

    What I was hoping to accomplish is for <script> to run on the first Sunday of the month and have <script2> run the other Sundays. Is there a way, using the cron, to accomplish what I was hoping for? Buying a third party job scheduling package would be nice but is not an option at this time.
    I have already modified <script> to do a check of the day-of-week and day-of-month and if it is Sunday and the day-of-month is less than 8, execute otherwise exit.

    Thanks

    Dale A. Whittemore
    Computer Systems Analyst, Senior
    Lockheed Martin Enterprise Information Systems
    Denver, Colorado 

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