* Alf Werder (awerder@gmx.de) [031204 11:16]: > On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 19:17, Michael Martinell wrote: > > I am definitely doing something wrong here. I want to schedule a job > > to run once at 12:00noon. I set it up in cron. It waits until > > 12:00noon, runs, and then runs every minute after. > > * 12 * * * /usr/sbin/parselog > > Try '0 12 * * * /usr/bin/parselog'. > > According to crontab(5) an asterix means 'first-last'. Your line is > interpreted as '0-59' 12 * * * /usr/bin/parselog', which indeed means to > start the command every minute in the time from 12pm to 1am. You mean 12:00 - 12:59, which is until 1pm. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- "If you can put it on a T-shirt, it's speech... To enjoin the T-shirts as a circumvention device is ludicrous." --Robin Gross, EFF staff attorney
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