cronjob - Second tuesday of the month?

[msalerno]

I'm trying to see if this is possible, but I don't see much in crontab(5) or online. Is this possible without additional coding?

[madchaz]

afraid not. The way cron works is you can specify the following.

Minute, hour, day of month, month, day of week.

So you could specify the second day of the week, but not the second day of the second week.
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[toralf]

BTW I'm wondering whether "2/2" would gives the 2nd (but the 4th too) Tuesday of a month.

[avx]

http://www.unix.com/302310344-post3.html
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/general-10/cronjob-for-every-second-saturday-of-the-month-707436/#post3457944

Maybe one of this is of help. Without additional coding, I don't think so, but it maybe dependend on which cron you're using exactly.
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[javeree]

second tuesday of the second week should always fall somewhere between the 7th and the 13th =>

#Minute, hour, day of month, month, day of week.
minute hour 7,8,9,10,11,12,13 month 2

[toralf]

[javeree]

I understand this means:

run whenever the date is one of 7 to 13 AND it is a tuesday (AND, not OR).
If you want or, you need to have different lines.

[toralf]

please ... read the man page :

[wthrowe]

Unfortunately, toralf is right. Seems like the other behavior would be more useful.

[msalerno]

So to sum it all up, it cannot do it.

[wthrowe]