[systemd-devel] Feature request: schedule jobs for last day of month

David Strauss david at davidstrauss.net
Wed Jan 30 14:04:55 PST 2013


On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 5:07 AM, Dave <dave at flex.com.au> wrote:
>  Hi.  I'm not on the maillist, but I recently read that systemd was planning
> to introduce an integrated job scheduler, if it isn't done already.
>
>  If so, then it would be very handy to introduce a way to run scheduled jobs
> at the end of the month.  It's something of a pet peeve I have with cron,
> that it can't natively do this.
>
>  I can work around it, but it's not pretty, and I'd much prefer a native
> solution.  I thought I'd throw the suggestion here as a good idea for the
> new scheduler.

That's a funny schedule for anything system-related. Why not just have
the job run every day and exit immediately when it's not the last day
of the month?

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