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Cc: Dave <dmehler26@woh.rr.com>, Duane Hill <d.hill@yournetplus.com>
Subject: Re: cron job every 5 hours
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On Friday 13 July 2007, Duane Hill wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 at 12:50 -0400, dmehler26@woh.rr.com=20
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=20
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=20
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


=2D-=20
Thanks,

Josh Paetzel

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