[lug] Cron to run every 3rd tuesday

[Scott Herod]

On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, David Anselmi wrote:

> Shannon Johnston wrote:
> > I have a perl script that needs to run every month, on the 3rd tuesday
> > of the month. Here's my cron entry:
> > 
> > 0  0  11-18  *  2  /usr/local/bin/script.pl
> 
> crontab(5) says this means 11th-18th plus Tuesdays.  My cron can't do 
> what you want but there's this:
> 
> http://zgp.org/linux-elitists/20050322011849.GC16840@localhost.html
> 
> Dave

Or have a separate perl script which runs every Tuesday which checks to 
see whether it is the third Tuesday and if so runs your script.

Scott