Question

[Bill Vermillion]

When asked his whereabouts on Fri, Jan 14 15:43 , Walter Vaughan took the 
fifth, drank it, and then slurred: 

> Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> >On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 03:19:19PM -0500, Fairlight wrote:
> >>At Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 02:43:52PM -0500 or thereabouts, 
> >>suspect Courtney was observed uttering:
> >>>One of the reps here wants a report every other Friday...I was thinking 
> >>>of
> >>if runfile exists (run report; remove runfile)
> >>if runfile does not exist (create runfile)
> >>....And I'd simply set this logic to run -every- Friday.  No worrying 
> >>about
> >>dates, etc.  It just flip-flops.

> Screw it. Set cron to run the report every Friday. Some stupid 
> holiday/lunar event is going to make him want you to change from even 
> week of the year Fridays to odd ones and back.

Or set the day in cron as   5/2   which means every other Friday.

I find the ability to use the /N in modern crons a great help 
intead of all the n,n,n,n,n,n,n,n thingys.

I don't know if the @weekly/2  would work, because the @<field>
are special

Bill
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