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Title:DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:SMURF::DENHAM
Created:Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:10068
Total number of notes:35879

9292.0. "cron problem?" by TKTV20::KOBAYASHI_E () Wed Mar 26 1997 03:59

OSF/1 3.2C
AlphaServer2100

 A customer sent me a problem report. He tried to execute two backup programs  
by cron.  One is working on the 1st day of every month.the other is working from
the 2nd day to 31st. But both program are executing by cron on 1-Mar-1997. For 
that reason ,backup doesn't work.

# crontab -e
0 1 1 1 * /tool/backup_sh1 &
0 1 1 2 * /tool/backup_sh1 &
0 1 1 3 * /tool/backup_sh1 &
0 1 1 4 * /tool/backup_sh1 &
0 1 1 5 * /tool/backup_sh1 &
0 1 1 6 * /tool/backup_sh1 &
0 1 1 7 * /tool/backup_sh1 &
0 1 1 8 * /tool/backup_sh1 &
0 1 1 9 * /tool/backup_sh1 &
0 1 1 10 * /tool/backup_sh1 &
0 1 1 11 * /tool/backup_sh1 &
0 1 1 12 * /tool/backup_sh1 &

0 1 2 * * /tool/backup_sh2 &
0 1 3 * * /tool/backup_sh2 &
0 1 4 * * /tool/backup_sh2 &
0 1 5 * * /tool/backup_sh2 &
0 1 6 * * /tool/backup_sh2 &
0 1 7 * * /tool/backup_sh2 &
0 1 8 * * /tool/backup_sh2 &
0 1 9 * * /tool/backup_sh2 &
0 1 10 * * /tool/backup_sh2 &
0 1 11 * * /tool/backup_sh2 &
0 1 12 * * /tool/backup_sh2 &
0 1 13 * * /tool/backup_sh2 &
0 1 14 * * /tool/backup_sh2 &
0 1 15 * * /tool/backup_sh2 &
0 1 16 * * /tool/backup_sh2 &
0 1 17 * * /tool/backup_sh2 &
0 1 18 * * /tool/backup_sh2 &
0 1 19 * * /tool/backup_sh2 &
0 1 20 * * /tool/backup_sh2 &
0 1 21 * * /tool/backup_sh2 &
0 1 22 * * /tool/backup_sh2 &
0 1 23 * * /tool/backup_sh2 &
0 1 24 * * /tool/backup_sh2 &
0 1 25 * * /tool/backup_sh2 &
0 1 26 * * /tool/backup_sh2 &
0 1 27 * * /tool/backup_sh2 &
0 1 28 * * /tool/backup_sh2 &
0 1 29 * * /tool/backup_sh2 &
0 1 30 * * /tool/backup_sh2 &
0 1 31 * * /tool/backup_sh2 &

# cat backup_sh1
dump 0uf /dev/rmt0h /
# cat backup_sh2
dump 0uf /dev/rmt0h /usr
#


Can you tell me what's wrong here ?

Thanks in advice,

Eiji Kobayashi/CSC/MCS/DECJAPAN

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9292.1Not an answer...NETRIX::"[email protected]"Brian HaleyWed Mar 26 1997 10:5713
Hi,

I don't know the answer, but know you could simplify all those lines
into a "neater" package:

# The first day of every month
0 1 1 1-12 * /tool/backup_sh1 &

# The second->last day of every month
0 1 2-31 * * /tool/backup_sh2 &

-Brian
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