RE: Cron problem after changing clock

["Sam Van Hulle" <hybrid@pandora.be>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bijan Soleymani [mailto:bijan@psq.com]
> Sent: dinsdag 29 april 2003 14:58
> To: Sam Van Hulle
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Cron problem after changing clock
> 
> 
> "Sam Van Hulle" <hybrid@pandora.be> writes:
> 
> >>> Does anyone knows how to fix this ?
> >
> >>What exactly is the crontab entry that is giving you problems. Can't
> >>you just edit the list of jobs with crontab so that it runs when you
> >>want it to? What happens when you change the task to run more/less
> >>often.
> > 5 * * * * /usr/bin/perl /home/users/c234/statistics.cgi
> > 4 0 * * * /usr/bin/perl /home/users/c234/alert.cgi
> > 8 0 * * * /usr/bin/perl /home/users/c234/bids.cgi
> >
> > When i change the tasks to run more/less the task is still run 
> after about
> > an hour,
> > only a couple of minutes sooner/later.
> 
> If you mean the first task then that's exactly what you have set it
> for :)

  :)

> 5 * * * *
> means at
> minutes = 5
> hours = *
> days = *
> etc.
> 
> For running every five minutes you want something like:
> 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * *

I adjusted this and it works now :)
But what i don't understand is why it did work before the clock change ?

It works now so that's the most important ;)  thx


Regards,
Sam


> When in doubt: man crontab
> 
> and especially: man 5 crontab
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Bijan
> 
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