SUMMARIZE: cron question

From: Jessm Marquez (jessm_m@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Aug 14 2002 - 08:00:04 EDT


I've received many answers, but the closest I was expecting is the one that
says that in case the day of the month and the day of the week is set, cron
executes the command either that day of the week and that day of the month.
That is, both times.

Thanks to:

Larry Garret
John Julian
Dinkar Surrender
Gnanagurusamy
Vermeulen
AK Rasanth
Zaigui Wang

Regards.

>From: "Jessm Marquez" <jessm_m@hotmail.com>
>To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
>Subject: cron question
>Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 07:04:01 +0000
>
>Hi wizards,
>
>I got the following doubt:
>
>I try to execute a command every July 2nd that is Sunday at 11:00 (so, once
>in this year).
>
>This is the format I got:
>
>
>00 11 3 7 0 command_to_be_executed
>
>
>The command was executed on July 2nd (that was Sunday) at 11:00, but it
>also was executed the next Sunday: July 9th.
>
>So, it looks like it's taking an OR between the day of the week and the
>rest of conditions of the cron. Is this a normal behaviour? (I've always
>taken it as an AND for every time-field of the cron).
>
>
>Thanks in advance and regards.
>
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