Re: [squid-users] simple quiestion

Henrik Nordstrom <hno@squid-cache.org> writes:

> On Friday 09 May 2003 03.43, George Dominguez wrote:
>
> > How can I schedule a task to run on the first Tuesday of every
> > month?
>
> You can't easily do that with cron.
>
> What you can easily do is to schedule a task which will be run on the
> first day of every month.

Something like
0 0 1-7 * * [ `date +%u` = "2" ] && command-to-be-executed

should work with appropriate quoting.

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