Crontab
Howard Gibson
hgibson-MwcKTmeKVNQ at public.gmane.org
Tue Oct 3 04:07:49 UTC 2006
On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 15:21:47 -0400 (EDT)
"Jason Carson" <jay-ttDcVxANFaNM656bX5wj8A at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> How do I run a program every half hour?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jay
Jay,
I did the following after I read the man page and I modified crontab. ...
# day day
# of of
# minute hour mon mon week command
###########################################################
30 03 * * * /bin/do/something
50 10 * * tue /bin/do/somethingelse
I have better things to do with my time than memorize this stuff. The #'s are comments, and now I can see clearly what each column does.
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Howard Gibson
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