[ale] crontab question

[Armsby John-G16665]

I 
downloaded vcron.  Works Great!  I am a GUI boy who can also see what 
I should have done in the first place.
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  size=2>-----Original Message-----From: Armsby John-G16665 
  [mailto:John.Armsby at motorola.com]Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 
  3:45 PMTo: ale at ale.orgSubject: RE: [ale] crontab 
  question
  I am 
  trying it as we write.  Thanks!
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    size=2>-----Original Message-----From: Da Splinter 
    [mailto:da_real_splinter at yahoo.com]Sent: Thursday, January 02, 
    2003 3:34 PMTo: ale at ale.orgSubject: Re: [ale] crontab 
    question
    Whatever the frequency you wanted to run this script, you were missing a 
    field. 
    Â Da Splinter <da_real_splinter at yahoo.com> wrote: 

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      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
      Â Armsby John-G16665 <John.Armsby at motorola.com> 
      wrote: 
      <BLOCKQUOTE 
      style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">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 
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