Re: crontab

[hypnos <hypnos@m-net.arbornet.org>]

On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Dave Sherohman wrote:

> > what do i have to write into /etc/crontab that cron will cp a
> > file every 5 mins??

> > i have
> > 5 * * * * root  cp ...
> > but this copies just every hour.
 
> crontab entries define patterns that the time has to match for it to execute,
> not intervals.  So you need to use
 
> 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * root cp ...

or the shorter:
*/5 * * * * root cp ...

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