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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