Schedule

RouterOS Scripting
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Anyone know how to make an schedule to run a script every date 11 each month?

2

I don’t know exactly how, but you can check every day
:if (11 = [:pick begin=8 end=10 [/system/clock/get date as-string]] do={…} else={…}

3

Please, when you open a topic, give it a relevant title,
otherwise if all the topics on the scheduler were called "Scheduler" you know what a mess.


Schedule something each day, and on sceduler on on-event:

# create a function getday that return the current day set on RouterOS, as number
:global getday do={
    /system clock                                    ; # go to system clock subsection
    :local vdate [get date]                          ; # put the current date into the variable vdate
    :local vdoff [:toarray "0,4,5,7,8,10"]           ; # create one array vdoff with the year, month, and day position on the vdate string
    :if ($vdate ~ ".../../....") do={                ; # if the date is on old format mmm/dd/yyy
        :set vdoff [:toarray "7,11,1,3,4,6"]         ; #     set vdoff with the correct values for old format
    }
    :local dd [:pick $vdate ($vdoff->4) ($vdoff->5)] ; # pick the day from vdate, the starting and ending points are read from vdoff position 4 and 5
    :return [:tonum $dd]                             ; # convert the string 01..31 to a number, and return that value
}

:if ([$getday] = 11)  do={

# call or put the script here

}
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4

Fun…

Don’t write things at random or made up from who knows what, and at least try them before writing them on the forum.

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What’s wrong with that suggestion? Imo, it’s simple and easy to understand.

:if (26 = [:pick begin=8 end=10 [/system/clock/get date as-string]]) do={ :put "today is the 26th" }

or perpahs

:local day [:pick begin=8 end=10 [/system/clock/get date as-string]]

:if ($day = 26) do={ 
    :put "today is the 26th" 
    # let's do something today..
}
6

I add a comment to each line, now is more clear…



Is untested and do not work (ignoring the “…” ), and do not work on all v6 / v7.10- / 7.10+ , since the OP do not specify the version.
is less readable and confusing “if the 11 is the day” if (11 = day) versus “if the day is the 11th” if (day = 11)
Also on your script you write $day = 26 and not 26 = $day

Separate question: why “as-string”?
Actually 7.14.3 return “str” regardless is used or not as-string…