From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 11 22:26:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from weeble.dyndns.org (ubppp233-155.dialin.buffalo.edu [128.205.233.155]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BB333F19 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 22:26:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from shithead (shithead.weeble.dyndns.org [10.0.0.2]) by weeble.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA14940; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 01:24:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) From: "C J Michaels" To: , Cc: Subject: RE: CRON Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 01:24:44 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <389A10A7.B4B54D62@ds.net> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > # > > #THIS IS THE CRON JOB IN QUESTION > * 0-23 * * * root /usr/local/bin/scr > > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message