crontab

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On 01/09/2011 04:44 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> To have the same shell running twice a week, I am using crond and
> anacron if I understand correctly. I have a file in /etc/cron.weekly
> (file.cron)
> and I also schedule the same file from crontad -e.
> However, it appears that I have the same file command
> (/etc/cron.weekly/file.cron) started at 2 slightly different times
>  started at Sun Dec 26 03:04:01 GMT 2010
> and at:
> started at Sun Dec 26 03:00:01 GMT 2010
> 
> according to my log files. This is a real problem.
> 
> How, can I run a cron file twice a week ?
> 
> Thank.
> 

Add it to root's crontab with crontab -e

Example:

0 0 * * 0,4 /path/to/command


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