Question

[Dennis Malen]

On AIX you can run cron for any day of the week.

Dennis Malen
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>
To: "Filepro Help List" <filepro-list at celestial.com>
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: Question


> On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 02:43:52PM -0500, Courtney wrote:
> > One of the reps here wants a report every other Friday...I was thinking
of
> > getting week number and dividing by two, if there is a remainder, than
dont
> > select...any other ways?  BTW...we run on UNIX so it would be a cron
job...
>
> This depends on which cron you're running, is it SCO?
>
> There's no great answer to this.  You *need* to use Week of Year,
> because if you use Week of Month, you'll either skip a week or get two
> in a row, depending on which werek numbers you choose, and which months
> have 5 weeks in them.
>
> But cron's dont tend to *have* "Week of Year", that I've seen.  You
> might just use at to schedule a script that runs the job then reskeds
> itself for +14 days.
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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