Alberto Monteiro wrote:
>
> Julia Thompson wrote:
> >
> > Is this cron job supposed to engage at the same time every week?
> >
> Cron has many options. But it should run once a minute at most.
>
> The cron line that goes into crontab is something like:
>
> minute hour day month weekday command...
>
> So, WTG should have put something like:
>
> 0 18 * * 3 <send mail...>
>
> Instead, he wrote:
>
> * 18 * * 3 <send mail...>
>
> Meaning that the command to send mail would be execute _every_
> minute of the 18 hours of weekday 3 [Wednesday]
Which is about what happened. At least, I got messages sent every
minute from 18:00 to 18:24, skipped 18:25, got 18:26 and 18:27, skipped
18:28, and got 18:29 and 18:30. And then it stopped, mercifully enough.
Oh, and someone else was using my computer during that time, and kept
hearing a little beep as each message came in. :) She was amused when
I told her what had happened.
Julia
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