CRON issue

[Rick Stevens]

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 16:06 -0500, Carl Reynolds wrote:
> Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 16:41 +0000, Tech Guy wrote:
> >
>  > <snip...>
> >
> >>then I added entries in the CRON:
> >>
> >>15 10 * * * /home/test/test.sh > /home/test/testcron.out 2>&1
> >>-----------------------------------
> >>
>  > <snip...>
> > Also note that the cron job as shown only runs the script once, at
> > 10:15 a.m.  For testing purposes, you might try "5 * * * *" to run it
> > every 5 minutes until you sort it out
>  >
> > 
> 
> "5 * * * *" would run the script a five minutes after every hour. To run 
> the script every five minutes enter "*/5 * * * * "

D'oh!  Yup, my bad.  Thanks for catching that one!

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