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Re: [PATCH 1/1] maintenance: fix launchctl calendar intervals

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Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 23, 2025, 19:25 UTC
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On 4/21/2025 1:42 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Josh Heinrichs <joshiheinrichs@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> When using the launchctl scheduler, the weekly job runs daily, and the
>> daily job runs on the first six days of each month. This appears to be
>> due to specifying "Day" in the calendar intervals, which according to
>> launchd.plist(5) is for specifying days of the month rather than days of
>> the week. The behaviour of running a job on the 0th day is undocumented,
>> but in my testing appears to be the same as not specifying "Day" in the
>> calendar interval, in which case the job will run daily.
>>
>> Use "Weekday" in the calendar intervals, which is the correct way to
>> schedule jobs to run on specific days of the week.
Wow, good find! Thank you for submitting a fix for this issue.

Thanks, -Stolee

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  1. 0/1 maintenance: fix launchctl calendar intervalsJosh Heinrichs, Apr 21, 2025
  2. 1/1 maintenance: fix launchctl calendar intervalsJosh Heinrichs, Apr 21, 2025
  3. Junio C HamanoApr 21, 2025
  4. Derrick StoleeApr 23, 2025
  5. Junio C HamanoApr 23, 2025

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