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| On Fri, 09 May 2008 10:13:55 -0400, smallpond <smallpond@juno.com> wrote: >Patrick Tonnerre wrote: >> Hi, >> >> is there a way to launch a crontab entry on AIX 5.2.0.0, ie each two >> mondays ? >> > >Your best bet is to launch a wrapper script every monday. In the >wrapper, choose whether it is an odd or even week and issue the >target commands accordingly. The "choose odd or even" can't be >from the beginning of the year, or it will not work across year >boundaries, so it needs to be based on absolute time. > >WEEK=`perl -e 'print 1 & int(time/(60*60*24*7))'` > >This inaccurately sets WEEK to 0 or 1 (currently 1). Better would >be to use one of perl's date/time modules, which do leap years, >DST, etc. instead of calculating it yourself. >--S That sounds dumb. Are youz some kind of asshole? |