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Tony Boom wrote: | Hello gentoo-user, | | Can someone please tell me how to set up a cron job? I've been reading | about it all day but can't get it to work. | | I want to download a jpg at 10 past the hour every three hours. I tried | this in /etc/crontab but it won't work. | | 10 15 * * * wget -q http://www.wizabit.eclipse.co.uk/xplanet/files/local/clouds_2000.jpg > /usr/share/xplanet/images/clouds_2000.jpg | | I know it's just for 15:10 but it still don't work. | |
Does the command work when you run it manually? If that's the case then 10 */3 * * * will run it ten past every third hour (provided you have a cron daemon running, of course)
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