crontab job

[Kapil Jha]

Just a better way to work with cron
Put these line in crontab files.
#minute (0-59),
#| hour (0-23),
#| | day of the month (1-31),
#| | | month of the year (1-12),
#| | | | day of the week (0-6 with 0=Sunday).
#| | | | | commands
0 2 * * 0,4 /etc/cron.d/logchecker

Thanks to UGU :)
Kapil

[Dennis Handly]

>my above setting is correct?

Yes. I finally convinced Yogeeraj that his complex version wasn't needed.
See his:
to summarize: this should work fine for you:

[ust3]

thx reply,

I have one addition question , if I want run on 1st of month when if it is Mon or Tue , can advise how to set ? thx

[Dennis Handly]

>if I want run on 1st of month when if it is Mon or Tue, can advise how to set?

You want to run on first AND ONLY if it is Mon or Tue?
You reverse what Yogeeraj had. (And fiddle with it a little. :-)

00 07 * * 1,2 [ $(date +%d) -eq 1 ] && my_script #run if 1st

Note you can also put the date check in the script so you don't clutter up the crontab.