Re: Cron

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw@iprimus.com.au>]

Travis Crump wrote:
> 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.

Aha, man 5 crontab :

# every 5 minutes:
*/5 * * * * /bin/echo "Date is `date`." | /usr/bin/mail -s cron root
###