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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!spring.edu.tw!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-3.sprintlink.net!news.cirrus.com!usenet From: Clint Wolff <clint_w@colorado.cirrus.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Last day of month crontab? Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 16:50:22 -0600 Organization: Cirrus Logic, Inc. Lines: 28 Message-ID: <324B08AE.41C67EA6@colorado.cirrus.com> References: <3237F3E8.167EB0E7@corpex.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: longs.colorado.cirrus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Neil Fowler Wright wrote: ; ; Hi, ; ; Is -1 valid in the Day_of_the_Month field of a crontab, to fire the ; script on the last day of the month? It does not seem to be covered by ; the manual. ; ; Cheers, ; ; -- ; Neil Fowler Wright Systems Administrator ; Corpex Ltd. +44 171 242 4555 Hi, I don't know if -1 is valid or not, but you could try Day_of_Month = 1 (first day), and Time_of_Day = 00:01 (one minute after midnight). This would be close enough to make me happy :) clint (easily amused) wolff -- Underscores added to return address to defeat advertising engines. clintw@colorado.cirrus.com