From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: When using the @monthly variable in the files /var/spool/cron folder the jobs are running daily. The @daily jobs run correctly. Std install of Fedora Core2. the file /var/spool/cron/root contains @daily /root/freespace.sh @monthly touch /etc/websnmp/reset.tag This touch command is being run daily. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): crontabs-1.10-6, vixie-cron-3.0.1-87 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. create a cron file and use the @monthly variable to log to a file 2. 3. Actual Results: Instead of being run monthly it runs every night at around 2 seconds after midnight Expected Results: Runs monthly Additional info:
This should not happen with the latest version of cron, which is: vixie-cron-4.1-19 . I'm in the process of getting this pushed to FC2 updates; meanwhile, you can download it for FC2 from: http://people.redhat.com/~jvdias/vixie-cron/FC2
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