On Friday 13 July 2007, Duane Hill wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 at 12:50 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 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 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 -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel
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