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On 06/01/2010 00:47, mcclnx mcc wrote:
> We have CENTOS 5 on DELL server. I tried to setup schedule cron job to run every other week on Saturday (NOT first and third week ).
>
> Does ayone has ideal how to do it?

Maybe like that...
1 1 * * 6/2 /bla/bin/doit
would read: do /bla/bin/doit at 1:01 every second saturday.
Unverified, but see

#$ man 5 crontab

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On 06/01/2010 00:47, mcclnx mcc wrote:
> We have CENTOS 5 on DELL server. I tried to setup schedule cron job to run every other week on Saturday (NOT first and third week ).
>
> Does ayone has ideal how to do it?

Maybe like that...
1 1 * * 6/2 /bla/bin/doit
would read: do /bla/bin/doit at 1:01 every second saturday.
Unverified, but see

#$ man 5 crontab

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best regards,
markus
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On 06/01/2010 00:47, mcclnx mcc wrote:
> We have CENTOS 5 on DELL server. I tried to setup schedule cron job to run every other week on Saturday (NOT first and third week ).
>
> Does ayone has ideal how to do it?

Maybe like that...
1 1 * * 6/2 /bla/bin/doit
would read: do /bla/bin/doit at 1:01 every second saturday.
Unverified, but see

#$ man 5 crontab

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markus
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mcclnx mcc wrote:
> We have CENTOS 5 on DELL server. I tried to setup schedule cron job to run every other week on Saturday (NOT first and third week ).
>

lets see...

date +'%U'

returns the week number of the year, 00-51... and (( expression ))
evaluates arithmetic expressions, returning 'true' if they are non-zero.
weeknumber & 1 will be 0 for even weeks and 1 for odd weeks.

So... set up your cron job to run every Saturday, and in the beginning
of the job script, do something like...

(( $(date +'%V') & 1 )) && exit

which will exit if the week of the year is even. or, in the front of
your crontab line, something like....

30 1 * * 6 (($(date +'%V')&1)) && command-you-want-to-execute-on-even-weeks






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From: mcclnx mcc <mcclnx@yahoo.com.tw>
> We have CENTOS 5 on DELL server. I tried to setup schedule cron job to run
> every other week on Saturday (NOT first and third week ).

Not tested, might work... maybe:
0 0 8-31/14 * 6 /script.sh
8-31/14 should skip the first week and then go every 2 weeks (unless the /14 takes 1 for base instead of the 8)...

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From: John Doe <jdmls@yahoo.com>
> From: mcclnx mcc
> > We have CENTOS 5 on DELL server. I tried to setup schedule cron job to run
> > every other week on Saturday (NOT first and third week ).
> Not tested, might work... maybe:
> 0 0 8-31/14 * 6 /script.sh
> 8-31/14 should skip the first week and then go every 2 weeks (unless the /14
> takes 1 for base instead of the 8)...

Or, just use 2 entries:
0 0 8-14 * 6 /script.sh
0 0 22-28 * 6 /script.sh

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From: mcclnx mcc
> 0 0 8-31/14 * 6 /script.sh

From: John Doe <jdmls@yahoo.com>
> 0 0 8-14 * 6 /script.sh
> 0 0 22-28 * 6 /script.sh

According to the man page, neither of these will not do what the OP
wants. Both will execute the command EVERY Saturday. The first will also
execute it on the 8th and 22nd of the month. The second will execute the
command TWICE a day AND days 8-14 AND 22-28. The man pages says if any of the
day parameters match, the command is executed. Unfortunately for the OP, the
day parameters are an OR operation and not an AND operation.

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From: Brent L. Bates <blbates@vigyan.com>
> From: mcclnx mcc
> > 0 0 8-31/14 * 6 /script.sh
> From: John Doe
> > 0 0 8-14 * 6 /script.sh
> > 0 0 22-28 * 6 /script.sh
> According to the man page, neither of these will not do what the OP
> wants. Both will execute the command EVERY Saturday. The first will also
> execute it on the 8th and 22nd of the month. The second will execute the
> command TWICE a day AND days 8-14 AND 22-28. The man pages says if any of the
> day parameters match, the command is executed. Unfortunately for the OP, the
> day parameters are an OR operation and not an AND operation.

Oops, I missed that part... you are right.
Guess the date check will have to be out of cron...
In case the even/odd week of the year does not work (I am not sure all months will start on odd weeks; do they?), here's another try:
0 0 * * 6 [ $((`date +"%d"`%14)) -ge 8 ] && script.sh
Would that work?

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> 0 0 * * 6 [ $((`date +"%d"`%14)) -ge 8 ] && script.sh
> Would that work?
>


0 0 * * 6 [ $((`date +"%V"`&1)) ] && script.sh

would work better. except, uh oh.... what happens at the end/beginning of a year? its quite possible for the even numbered weeks in one year and the even weeks in the next year NOT to be every other week.

this is harder than it looks. I think you'll need to calculate total days since epoch date, modulo 14

[ $(( ($(date +"%s") / 86400) % 14)) -eq 9 ]

where %s is seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC, which was a Wednesday here (PST) at least.

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Thank you. This script only work on regular enviroment like sh, ksh and bash. When I put on cron job I got error message:

/bin/sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `'

any ideal (CENTOS 4 and 5)?



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> 寄件者: John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com>
> 主旨: Re: [CentOS] setup schedule cron job every other week?
> 收件者: "CentOS mailing list" <centos@centos.org>
> 日期: 2010年1月5日,二,下�7:18
> mcclnx mcc wrote:
> > We have CENTOS 5 on DELL server.Â* I tried to
> setup schedule cron job to run every other week on Saturday
> (NOT first and third week ).
> >Â*Â*Â*
>
> lets see...
>
> date +'%U'
>
> returns the week number of the year, 00-51... and ((
> expression ))
> evaluates arithmetic expressions, returning 'true' if they
> are non-zero.
> weeknumber & 1 will be 0 for even weeks and 1 for odd
> weeks.
>
> So... set up your cron job to run every Saturday, and in
> the beginning
> of the job script, do something like...
>
> (( $(date +'%V') & 1 )) && exit
>
> which will exit if the week of the year is even. or, in the
> front of
> your crontab line, something like....
>
> 30 1 * * 6 (($(date +'%V')&1)) &&
> command-you-want-to-execute-on-even-weeks
>
>
>
>
>
>
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