Re: cron, crontab, etc. [CORRECTION]

[Daniel Ruoso <ruoso@inova.com.br>]

Wayne Topa wrote:
> 
>         Subject: Re: cron, crontab, etc.
>         Date: Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 10:12:39AM -0400
> 
> In reply to:Wayne Topa
> 
> Quoting Wayne Topa(wtopa@mindspring.com):
> >
> >       Subject: cron, crontab, etc.
> >       Date: Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 01:07:09PM +0100
> >
> > In reply to:Patrick Kirk
> >
> > Quoting Patrick Kirk(patrick@kirks.net):
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I want to schedule a command to run updatebd every 6 hours.  The man pages
> > > for cron and crontab don't have any useful info on how.
> > >
> > > How do I do this?
> > >
> > > Patrick
> >
> > In /etc/crontab I do this
> > 30 5 * * *      root nice -10 /root/bin/dodb 2>&1 > /dev/null
> > /root/bin/dodb

	actually the most eficient will be:

	0 */6 * * * etc...

Daniel Ruoso