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Crontab / Is this possible?

D. Jackson_1 — Fri, 31 May 2002 19:18:21 GMT

0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 0,2-23 * 1-6 /usr/local/bin/blah/blah.sh

or

0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 0-7,9-23 * 1-6 /usr/local/bin/blah/blah.sh

Thnx
DCJ

Re: Crontab / Is this possible?

Jeff Schussele — Fri, 31 May 2002 19:25:08 GMT

Hi D,

Appears to me you're leaving out a field in both - "month of the year 1-12"...else, yes it'd work.

HTH,
Jeff

Re: Crontab / Is this possible?

D. Jackson_1 — Fri, 31 May 2002 19:27:44 GMT

Yes Jeff you are right I did leave out a * field. So my hours field would/should work okay??

Thnx

Re: Crontab / Is this possible?

Helen French — Fri, 31 May 2002 19:30:16 GMT

I think YES !

Remember about the month date field that you are missing at the original post.

Re: Crontab / Is this possible?

A. Clay Stephenson — Fri, 31 May 2002 19:30:56 GMT

I suppose you are wondering about the 0,2-23 or other combinations within the same field. Yes, that is legal.

Re: Crontab / Is this possible?

Rodney Hills — Fri, 31 May 2002 19:32:25 GMT

Rather than starting up a new process every 5 minutes, you could launch the process once and have it loop and sleeping for 5 minutes.

example-

#!/usr/bin/ksh
while (1) ; do
...
...
sleep 300
done

-- Rod Hills

Re: Crontab / Is this possible?

D. Jackson_1 — Fri, 31 May 2002 19:32:38 GMT

Thanks All

Keep on rockin.

DCJ