About the crontab job

[hangyu]

If I set the crontab job to as below , then when the job will be run ? 2th or Tuesday ? 2th and Tuesday ? thx



0 10 2 * 2 script

[A. Clay Stephenson]

The day of month and weekday fields in a crontab are a logical OR so that your cron job will run on the 2nd of every month and every Tuesday.

[skt_skt]

#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Minute Hour Month Day Month Weekday Command
# 0-59 0-23 1-31 1-12 0-6 (0=Sunday)
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Every month on date 2 and if it is a Tuesday

[M.S. BALAJI]

Hi,

From man page

Note that the specification of days can be made in two fields: monthday and weekday.
If both are specified in an entry, they are cumulative. For example,

0 0 1,15 * 1 command

runs command at midnight on the first and fifteenth of each month, as well as every Monday. To specify days in only one field, set the other field to asterisk (*). For example,
0 0 * * 1 command

runs command only on Mondays.

Regards,
BALAJI M.S

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi,

these are a few lines that are always found in my crontabs:

#*******************************************************************************
# min|hour |day |month|day |script
# | |of mo| |of wk|
#----|-----|-----|-----|-----|--------------------------------------------------
#*******************************************************************************
#*******************************************************************************
# END OF TABLE day0->Sunday day6->Saturday
#*******************************************************************************


makes editing easy.

kind regards
yogeeraj