[Eug-lug] crontab - last day of month

Rob Hudson rob at euglug.net
Wed Nov 22 08:53:44 PST 2006


Matthew Jarvis wrote:
> It's so funny you mention 5:37 as an example time... At one point I had 
> a cron job scheduled at 5:37 and for some reason it (usually) wouldn't 
> run or complete... changing to 5:34 solved the problem (at least well 
> enough)...
> 
> Never did find out what the heck the conflict was....

Was the cron job doing anything more than a Yes/No check?  :)

Simply let your 'Yes' be 'Yes,' and your 'No,' 'No'; anything beyond 
this comes from the evil one.
   -- Matthew 5:37


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