Your message dated Thu, 3 Apr 2008 14:22:15 -0400 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Re: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> echo crontab run at noon every other day! has caused the Debian Bug report #196407, regarding "steps" for day of month never take effect to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-74 Severity: normal The paragraph about "step ranges" in crontab(5) gives an example which does not work: Step values can be used in conjunction with ranges. Following a range with ``/<number>'' specifies skips of the number's value through the range. For example, ``0-23/2'' can be used in the hours field to spec- ify command execution every other hour (the alternative in the V7 stan- dard is ``0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22''). Steps are also permitted after an asterisk, so if you want to say ``every two hours'', just use ``*/2''. I would like to run a job every other day (at noon), but 0 12 */2 * * the_command never executes. If the step ranges are not permitted in the day-of-month field, please say so in the man page. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux fenric 2.4.20-fenric3 #1 SMP Fri May 23 18:39:18 EDT 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages cron depends on: ii debconf 1.2.39 Debian configuration management sy ii debianutils 2.5.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.3.1-17 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libpam0g 0.76-11 Pluggable Authentication Modules l -- debconf information: * cron/checksecurity:
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 3.0pl1-104 On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 12:00:01PM -0400, Cron Daemon wrote: > crontab run at noon every other day! On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 12:00:01PM -0400, Cron Daemon wrote: > crontab run at noon every other day! I checked with the following crontab: 0 12 */2 * * echo crontab run at noon every other day! that this works as intended with current cron version.
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