Re: Cron

[Travis Crump <pretzalz@techhouse.org>]

Russell Shaw wrote:
> Hi,
> I set this with crontab -e :
>
> 3 * * * * /usr/bin/mailfilter ; /bin/echo "Mailfiltering" | 
> /usr/bin/mail -s mai
> 1 * * * * /bin/echo "Date is `date`." | /usr/bin/mail -s cron root
> ###
>
> I should get mail every minute, but it doesn't work. If i try:
>   /bin/echo "Date is `date`." | /usr/bin/mail -s cron root
> in the shell, then i do get mail.

3 * * * * would be once an *hour* at three minutes past the hour.  Five 
stars is every minute.

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