Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:33:36 -0400 (EDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: wjm@gate.net (William Melanson) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Crontab entry question... Message-ID: <199908170233.WAA09458@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.4.03.9908162135220.152216-100000@inca.gate.net> from William Melanson at "Aug 16, 99 09:58:12 pm"
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William Melanson wrote, > > This is the current crontab enrty I have to fire up a simple shell > script: > > #Run at 8:30pm, Monday August 16th > 30 20 16 8 mon /usr/home/user1/script.sh > > My question is how do I (would you) modify this entry to run this > script every 10mins (open ended) starting at say... 8:30pm same day > and month? It depends on just how 'open ended' you mean. Do you want it to run the rest of the day, every ten minutes? 30,40,50 20 16 8 /usr/home/user1/script.sh 0-59/10 20-23 16 8 /usr/home/user1/script.sh Or do you _really_ want to run this once and just keep looping? Maybe you are better off using at(1), % at 2030 8/16 while :; do /usr/home/user1/script.sh sleep 600 done -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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