Is it possible to skip a scheduled cron job?

[David Bandel]

On 3/22/07, Vu Pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 14:18 +1100, James McDonald wrote:
> >  I have a cron job which runs at x time every week night is there any
> > way of skipping one instance of execution?
> >
>
> I got to similar problem. I created two other cron jobs that run one
> minute before and one minute after the time I want to skip the original
> job. The job at x-1m renames the original_job to temp_job, and the job
> at x+1m renames the temp_job to original_job. This makes the cron fails
> executing the original job at that time.

Sounds to me like these two jobs should be combined into one.  Again,
cron is designed so that job execution isn't forgotten (skipped).  If
you need to skip execution, you need to include that logic in the
script.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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