From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 8 19:44:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA05534 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 19:44:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from cody.usls.edu (proxy-c.usls.edu [202.47.133.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA05526 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 19:44:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from francis@cody.usls.edu) Received: from localhost (francis@localhost) by cody.usls.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA00464 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 11:41:45 +0800 (PHT) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 11:41:45 +0800 (PHT) From: Francis Vidal To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: crontab question Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk hello everyone! just wondering how i can tell crontab to execute something every N hours. is it this one: * */2 * * * root /usr/bin/hello or * 2,4,6,8,10,12... * * * root /usr/bin/hello thanks! --- francis vidal | usls.NET | university of st. la salle, bacolod city, PH PGP key available at ftp://ftp.usls.edu/pub/pgpkeys/francis.pgp "birds of the same feathers are birds!" - rhoderick samonte's class