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| capeme 2006-10-25, 1:28 pm |
| I am using the following cron entry to run a cron job every 4 hours and
it is rejecting it:
Any ideas?
0 */4 * * * /home/location/scriptname
Thanks
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| Chris F.A. Johnson 2006-10-25, 1:28 pm |
| On 2006-10-25, capeme wrote:
> I am using the following cron entry to run a cron job every 4 hours and
> it is rejecting it:
> Any ideas?
> 0 */4 * * * /home/location/scriptname
IIRC, some versions of cron require 0-59/4.
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| capeme 2006-10-25, 1:28 pm |
| This is AIX.
Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> On 2006-10-25, capeme wrote:
>
> IIRC, some versions of cron require 0-59/4.
>
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> Chris F.A. Johnson, author | <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
> Shell Scripting Recipes: | My code in this post, if any,
> A Problem-Solution Approach | is released under the
> 2005, Apress | GNU General Public Licence
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| capeme 2006-10-25, 7:15 pm |
| would the entry be 0 0-59/4 * * * etc...
capeme wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
> This is AIX.
>
>
> Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
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| Chris Matras 2006-10-25, 7:15 pm |
| How's about 0 0,4,8,12,16,20 * * * ......
capeme wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
> would the entry be 0 0-59/4 * * * etc...
> capeme wrote:
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| Chris F.A. Johnson 2006-10-25, 7:15 pm |
| On 2006-10-25, capeme wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
[please don't top post]
[vbcol=seagreen]
> would the entry be 0 0-59/4 * * * etc...
> capeme wrote:
What does the man page say?
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Chris F.A. Johnson, author | <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
Shell Scripting Recipes: | My code in this post, if any,
A Problem-Solution Approach | is released under the
2005, Apress | GNU General Public Licence
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| Logan Shaw 2006-10-26, 1:31 am |
| > Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
[vbcol=seagreen]
[vbcol=seagreen]
capeme wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
> This is AIX.
Well, then it probably doesn't support the syntax that allows you to
add a "/" in one of the time fields, since this is a platform-specific
extension.
- Logan
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| Tintin 2006-10-26, 7:17 am |
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"capeme" <capeme@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:1161797915.375557.173410@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>I am using the following cron entry to run a cron job every 4 hours and
> it is rejecting it:
> Any ideas?
> 0 */4 * * * /home/location/scriptname
man crontab
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