On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Mike Rambo wrote:
> Vic wrote:
> >
> > I wonder how you make your cron daemon do things
> > in less increments than just on the hour?
> >
> > I can make my system play a sound (a bong) to strike
> > the hour by putting play bong.wav in my 0anacron
> > file in the cron.hourly directory, but I want to
> > have some other things happen like maybe every
> > 30 minutes or on specific dates like appointment
> > reminders if this is possible.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Vic
>
> 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * /path/to/do/something
>
> will make something happen every 10 minutes.
>
>
Just wondering...wouldn't
0-50/10 * * * * /yourcommand
Accomplish the same thing? Or do I need to read that MAN page again!!
Andrew
