cron processes

Rick Stevens rstevens at vitalstream.com
Fri Feb 2 23:54:31 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 14:09 -0800, bruce wrote:
> hi...
> 
> i can setup a cron process to run on a daily/weekly/monthly periodic
> frequency. however, if i'm in jan, and i setup a cron to run on a monthly
> basis, starting on jan 29, what happens when the os gets to feb 28, and
> there is no feb 29?

I believe it'll run on March 1, but I won't swear to it.  Why not choose
a day you KNOW occurs (such as the 14th).

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