[ale] crontab question

[Jonathan Glass]

It appears you only have 4 time fields.  

>From the crontab man page:

Each line has five time and date fields, followed by a user name if this
is  the  system  crontab  file,  followed  by  a  command.

Also, your time selection could be written 0-23/2

For example, ‘‘0‐23/2’’ can be used in the hours field to specify
command execution every other hour (the alternative in the V7 
standard  is ‘‘0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22’’)


On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 15:20, Armsby John-G16665 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.scr
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> John
> 
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