Re: Cron

[wpmills@Mills-USA.com (W. Paul Mills)]

theo.wribe@telia.com (Theo Wribe) writes:

> How do I create a crontab that run's #ping IP every 10 seconds?
> 
> Tried crontab -e
> 
> 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * *        /bin/ping -s 8 -c 1 www.sunet.se 1>
> /dev/null 2> /dev/null
> 
> But it doesn't seem to work.


You are sending a ping every 10 minutes. But why use cron at all?
Add " -i 10 " to your ping command, and remove the  " -c 1 ".


Paul



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