how to create a cron job that runs on the first day of month [duplicate]
There are fields on my server's control panel like this
Minute - Hour - Day of month - Month - Day of the week - Command
How can I create a cron job runs on first day of the month with this fields?
This will run the command foo at 12:00AM on the first of every month
0 0 1 * * /usr/bin/foo
This article describes the various fields, look to the bottom of the page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron
To add this to your cron file, just use the command
crontab -e
Will run /usr/bin/foo at 12:10am on the first day of the month.
10 0 1 * * /usr/bin/foo
Will run /usr/bin/foo at 3:10am on every day.
10 3 * * * /usr/bin/foo
See http://www.scrounge.org/linux/cron.html
updated the crons, it was a copy paste error, thanks Joy Dutta!