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Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2015 10:12:17 +0200
From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cron - once a month during week days
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On 05/02/2015 22:49, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I was under impression that it will run once a month on Monday but it
>>> seems to be running every day, why?
>>>
>>
>> Basically, what you want to do cannot be done in a plain crontab. You
>> might be able to leverage anacron to accomplish what you want.
>>
> 
> [Timer]
> OnCalendar=Mon *-*-1,2,3,4,5,6,7 12:08:00
> 
> (ducks!)
> 


In my defense, I've never used anacron, I just have some idea of what it
can do by reading a man page here and there :-)

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com