crontab : day-of-month support for last-day-of-month

[Nicolas Blais]

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.
> >
> >Nicolas.
>
> 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,
>
> Kevin Kinsey

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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