Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 13:42:36 -0400 From: robg <robg.list@gmail.com> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: can someone explain crontab to me better? Message-ID: <5c389d3b040919104228593a14@mail.gmail.com>
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hi, i am having a hard time understanding crontab after reading http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-cron.html .. i still can't understand the minutes/hours... when you specify minutes, does it mean the command is run every X minutes? and if you specify a hour AND minutes, the command is run every X hours for X minutes? so if i did */5 */2 * * * root /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb it would run that command every two hours for 5 minutes? so when two hours comes around, itll keep running that command over and over for 5 minutes? or will it run that command once every 5 minutes for two hours? im confused i just want to know the syntax to run something every 2 hours once .. can someone clarify this thanks -- robg robg.list@gmail.com
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