On Sun, 10 Nov 2002 11:31, W.D.McKinney wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Thanks. man crontab doesn't tell me what the syntax is for a "every 5 > minute" > job though, and that's what I need. Any other ideas ? > Here's an excerpt from my crontab # run every 5 minutes */5 * * * * /home/bob/bin/getmail HTH Bob