Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:03:33 -0500 From: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Dave <dmehler26@woh.rr.com>, Duane Hill <d.hill@yournetplus.com> Subject: Re: cron job every 5 hours Message-ID: <200707131303.36618.josh@tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <20070713165535.A43805@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> References: <000f01c7c56d$da44d640$0200a8c0@satellite> <20070713165535.A43805@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com>
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--nextPart1228963.Nmo7T5k2GZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 13 July 2007, Duane Hill wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 at 12:50 -0400, dmehler26@woh.rr.com=20 confabulated: > > Hello, > > I want to run an updater script, every 5 hours and x minutes. I > > thought to use: > > > > minute 5 * * * root path/to/scriptname > > crontab(5): > ... > Steps are also permitted after an asterisk, so if you want to > say ``every two hours'', just use ``*/2''. > ... > > So, my guess would be: > > minute */5 * * * root path/to/scriptname > Sort of, that would run the cronjob at midnight, 5am, 10am, 3pm, and=20 8pm so there would be one interval where it runs at 4 hours. The real method if it's imparitive to run it every 5 hours would be to=20 set up a cronjob for each day of the week, rotating by one hour. minute 0,5,10,15,20 * * 0 minute 1,6,11,16,21 * * 1 minute 2,7,12,17,22 * * 2 and so on and so forth =2D-=20 Thanks, Josh Paetzel --nextPart1228963.Nmo7T5k2GZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGl754JvkB8SevrssRAphCAJ4idx634Qv78gXGBf7rkPVawaqKAwCePvXI L0PeoDxnvE/7IZqSbIzY6iE= =ScZG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1228963.Nmo7T5k2GZ--
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