On Wednesday 03 September 2003 11:34 am, HaywireMac wrote:
> Checkin' out configuring cron with webmin, and I'm not clear on
> something.
>
> The choices above each time sector are "all" or "selected".
>
> If I choose "all", say, above minutes, does that mean the job is going
> to be run every minute, or will it skip to hourly?

If you choose all, it means it doesn't trigger it for a specific minute.  You 
do need to choose selected on at least one or the cron job will just never be 
triggered at all.

> Conversely, if I choose "selected", do I just not select any minutes so
> that the job will skip minutes and go to hours?
>
> Basically what I want to do is execute this command, say every 3 or 4
> hours, for my dynamic IP:
>
> zoneclient.py -l -r http://checkip.dyndns.org/ user pass
> www.orderinchaos.org,orderinchaos.org

Select "selected" under hours and then select an hour every 3 hours and it 
will run on those hours.  You may also want to select at least one minute 
entry and choose selected there, so that it will run say at 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 
etc.

-- 
Bryan Phinney
Software Test Engineer


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