topic skip the crontab job for one time in Operating System - Linux

skip the crontab job for one time

peterchu — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 02:03:02 GMT

I have a crontab job it run at the 1st of every month , if I want to skip to run the crontab job at next month ( 1th May ) only , but it run normally at the rest of month , is it possible ? thx

Re: skip the crontab job for one time

Stuart Browne — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 02:15:21 GMT

Not really, no. You cant exclude a time in a Crontab.

You either have to comment the crontab entry out, or make the routine it runs have a way to postpone it's self.

Re: skip the crontab job for one time

Claudio Cilloni — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 03:00:54 GMT

your crontab entry is (I guess) something like this:

00 00 1 * *

you can change it so:
00 00 1 1-4,6-12 * *

hope this helps.

ciao
Claudio

Re: skip the crontab job for one time

Stuart Browne — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 03:47:56 GMT

.. please note that claudio's solution will skip the first of may for *every* year from then on ..

Re: skip the crontab job for one time

Claudio Cilloni — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 04:42:23 GMT

Yes, exactly... but you have enough time to undo this change :-)