Re: run cron job every 15 minutes

[John Horne <J Horne plymouth ac uk>]

On 30-Apr-01 at 15:51:51 rpjday wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Paul Anderson wrote:
>> replace the 15 with 15 30 45 00.  This will make the job run every 15
>> minutes.
> 
> the above syntax won't work -- you need to separate multiple values
> for the same field with commas, not spaces.  and there can't be any
> intervening spaces around the commas either.
> 
> in either case, you're better off using the */15 syntax i mentioned
> earlier.
> 
Why is that 'better'? I still use the old (?) syntax of '0,15,30,45' which
seems to work just as well.

John.

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