Re: can someone explain crontab to me better?

From: Tom Joyce (tomjoyce_at_gmail.com)
Date: 09/19/04

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To: Benjamin Sobotta <mayday@gmx.net>

    Yes, I am sorry for that, I had not gotten your reply when I wrote and
    sent mine. :-) thanks.

    Thanks again,
    Tom Joyce
    tomjoyce@gmail.com

    On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 20:14:33 +0000, Benjamin Sobotta <mayday@gmx.net> wrote:
    > hi again
    >
    > I'm not quite sure but I think your command
    >
    > * */2 * * * root /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
    >
    > would make it run every minute every second hour.
    >
    >
    >
    > On Sunday 19 September 2004 17:55, Tom Joyce wrote:
    > > I believe that you would simply set 2 hours, as in:
    > >
    > > * */2 * * * root /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
    > >
    > > That would run the script in /usr/libexec/ called "locate.updatedb"
    > > every 2 hours, taking as long as it needs to.
    > >
    > > Please correct me if anyone knows more about it than I do.
    > > Thanks...
    > >
    > > On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 13:42:36 -0400, robg <robg.list@gmail.com> wrote:
    > > > hi,
    > > >
    > > > i am having a hard time understanding crontab after reading
    > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-cr
    > > >on.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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