From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 8 20:57:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp002pub.verizon.net (smtp002pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 311C437B416 for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 20:57:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from verizon.net (pool-141-154-54-59.bos.east.verizon.net [141.154.54.59]) by smtp002pub.verizon.net with ESMTP ; id fB94uZP08967 Sat, 8 Dec 2001 22:56:35 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3C12EEE8.1050307@verizon.net> Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 23:56:08 -0500 From: Simon Morton Reply-To: smorton@acm.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011120 X-Accept-Language: en,pdf,zh-CN,de-DE,zh-TW,zh, zh-õ` MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jacks@sage-american.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cron Schedule Syntax References: <3.0.5.32.20011208224455.0101cb38@mail.sage-american.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG jacks@sage-american.com wrote: > If I want a cron event to run every 8 hours... Wouldn't the following do it > in the per hour schedule? > */8 # equals every point within the 24-hours divisable by 8..? > #..or 0800, 1600 & 2400 According to "man 5 crontab", that will do it. So will 0,8,16. Simon -- http://www.SimonMorton.com smorton at acm dot org \rm -rf /bin/laden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message