Re: [flexbackup-help] What exactly is the "-wday" switch for?

[Mathieu A. <ma...@ma...>]

+-le 03/12/2003 16:10 +0100, Thomas Arendsen Hein =E9crivait :
| On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 04:03:34PM +0100, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
|> +-le 03/12/2003 15:38 +0100, Thomas Arendsen Hein =E9crivait :
|> | I've read the FAQ, but didn't find an answer why these two crontab
|> | entries should behave different:
|> |=20
|> | With -wday:
|> |  0 3 1-7 * * flexbackup -wday 7 -set all ....
|>=20
|> That will do every Sunday between 1 and 7
|>=20
|> | Without -wday:
|> |  0 3 1-7 * 7 flexbackup -set all ....
|>=20
|> This will do every Sunday and every day from 1 to 7.
|>=20
|> So, it's not the same thing :)
|=20
| Ah, that answers my question. Knowing this I took another look in
| the crontab.5 man page:
|        Note: The day of a command's execution can be specified by
|        two fields -- day of month, and  day  of  week.   If  both
|        fields  are restricted (ie, aren't *), the command will be
|        run when either field matches the current time.
|=20
| Stupid cron :-/

That's your point of view ;)

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Mathieu Arnold