On August 30, 2005 11:16 am, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
Nicolas Blais wrote:
Hi,
Does our crontab allow the use of "L" (as found on
http://wiki.opensymphony.com/display/QRTZ1/CronTriggers+Tutorial?decorator
=printable) in the day-of-month field which would allow for a job to run
on a 31th or feb 28?
It would be useful for certain apps like /www/awstats to update their
database on the last hour of the month since putting the cron job on the
1st of the month makes the software update in a new month and putting it
on the 30th of the month might loose 1 day.
As Lowell noted, "last day" isn't an option currently. Any number of
scripting languages, though, are capable of handling this.
Here was a solution we came up with, using PHP, a couple years
ago:
http://www.daleco.biz/articles/page.php?story=20
I'm sure something like this, or better, would be possible
with PERL, ruby, etc., or possibly even sh/bash, though I've
not tried.
HTH,
Ok, well I'll try to make a patch for my side. I still believe that having the
option is better that not having it at all, though I may be wrong.
Thanks for your replies!
Nicolas.
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