syntax for bi-weekly cron job?

[Davide Ferrari]

On Friday 05 December 2008 06:33:44 Tino Schwarze wrote:
> flagfile=/var/run/`basename $0`.weekly
> if [ -f "$flagfile" ] ; then
>     echo "Not running this week"
>     rm "$flagfile"
>     exit
> fi
> touch "$flagfile"
> # do work

Although I always try to do not use lockfiles, this is a smart suggestion 
indeed :)

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Davide Ferrari
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