Aaron writes:

> I am trying to run a cron job more frequent than one hour, but that's as
> small as it goes in /etc/cron.*  I read both the cron and crontab man
> pages but neither says anything about the /etc/crontab format.  I

That's because there are two man pages. man 5 crontab gets the other  
page from section 5, where file formats are explained.

> couldnt tell just by looking at it.. looked confusing :)  Anyone know
> how to add an entry to run a certain program say every 10 min?

Put a */10 in the first column of your crontab (using crontab -e to  
edit it).


        Alex
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