[ale] crontab question

[Da Splinter]

If this script is to run every odd hour then you are missing a * at the beginning:minute hour day month week /home/script* 1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21 * * * /home/dc/bin/getFiles.scr
 Armsby John-G16665 <John.Armsby at motorola.com> wrote:
I am on redhat 8.0. I want to run a script every other hour. Since this was a new install, I simply copied the format of an HPUX cron.The cron does not run. Is my syntax bad??4th Berkeley Distribution 29 December 1993 CRONTAB(1)[dc at xena dc]$ crontab -l# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.# (/tmp/crontab.5548 installed on Thu Dec 26 11:40:49 2002)# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $)1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21 * * * /home/dc/bin/getFiles.scrThanks,John_______________________________________________Ale mailing listAle at ale.orghttp://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/aleDo you Yahoo!?
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