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Date:      Sat, 12 Feb 2000 01:24:44 -0500
From:      "C J Michaels" <cjm2@earthling.net>
To:        <jmutter@ds.net>, <courtney@whtz.com>
Cc:        <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: CRON
Message-ID:  <NDBBJKPOALBHJNGOLOFNEEBLCAAA.cjm2@earthling.net>
In-Reply-To: <389A10A7.B4B54D62@ds.net>

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I know I'm a week late on this one.  But you don't need to re-start cron when changing /etc/crontab.  As per the man 8 cron, it
re-reads the /etc/crontab file each time it is run.

-Chris



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of James A. Mutter
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 6:35 PM
To: courtney@whtz.com
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: CRON


courtney@whtz.com wrote:
>
> OK- as requested, here is a copy of my /etc/crontab file
>
> #minute   hour mday month     wday who   command
> #
> */5     *       *       *       *       root  /usr/libexec/atrun
> #

<snip>

>
> #THIS IS THE CRON JOB IN QUESTION
> *    0-23 *    *    *    root /usr/local/bin/scr
>

<snip>


> I would like to run that job every 10 minutes 24 hours a day...is that
> possible as well??
>

Sure is - make an entry just like the atrun entry.  You'll end up with
something like this:
*/10	*	*	*	*	root	/usr/local/bin/scr


I'm pretty sure that will get you up and running.
Don't forget to restart cron when you're done.


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