another thing ... you have cron.hourly when you run it, check with a counter if this is a 3rd hour - if so - run it, and set the counter to 1 , if not, increment the counter and exit.
-=O0~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~O0=- "He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought - So rested he by the Tumtum tree. And stood awhile in thought." [L.Carrol "Jabberwacky"] On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Ishai Parasol wrote: > Hi > > What can I do if I want to run a script on a regular basis using cron, but I > need it between the system's crons (lets say every 3 hours) ? > > Thanks, > Ishai. > > P.S. - Runinng redhat 6.2 > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]