Re: Scheduling Jobs - Last day of the month - HOWTO?

On 2006-08-30, Michael B Johnson <mjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I would like to schedule a job on the last day of each month.

When I looked through the man pages for Cron, there did not appear to be any
obvious mechanism for specifying the *last day* of the month.

I don't think there is, at least for the typical cron daemons I know.
But often I'll finesse the problem by running the job on the 28th--
usually that's Close Enough For Government Work. If it's not close
enough for your work, you'll need one of the other suggestions provided.

--keith

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