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I need to set up a CRON job to be scheduled in

every 1st and the 3rd Monday of every Month.

I'm using the Plesk control panel for setting these as follows.

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Currently CRON runs successfully, however on every Monday. Which isn't my requirement.

Also referred this link https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11683387/cron-run-every-2nd-and-4th-saturday-of-the-month Then the CRON runs on 1-7,15-21 fourteen times.

Anyone know a solution?

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I recently scheduled the job, like you had/have. In similar case, what I do is find out the dates of month that usually fall on day of week, for example 1st Monday usually fall between 1-7 and 3rd Monday falls in between 15-23. Hence, following crontab should work for you

30 3 1-7,15-22 * * [`date +\%u` = 1] &&  <job>

above cronhjob gets schedule for each day between 1-7 and 15-23 dates of month, however, gets executed only when the day of week is 1 (Monday).

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