Re: crontab every 5 minutes?

2004-12-26 Thread Stefan Drees
Hello, try this*/5 * * * for other exsamples see man 5 crontab Bye Lance Hoffmeyer schrieb: Hello, How do I get crontab to run a process every 5 minutes? Currently, it is setup as: 5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * Surely, there is a more elegant approach? Lance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: crontab every 5 minutes?

2004-12-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joao Clemente [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, I must wonder: Is there a way to shift this by a wanted value? (for instance, when x MOD y = 1, something like putting into cron the instance (*/5)+1 ? It would run at 1,6,11,16,21, ... Is it possible? Perhaps 1-59/5 ?

Re: crontab every 5 minutes?

2004-12-24 Thread Tom Allison
Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: Hello, How do I get crontab to run a process every 5 minutes? Currently, it is setup as: 5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * Surely, there is a more elegant approach? Lance if you use the notation */5 * * * * then it will run every five minutes, but not always on the 5

crontab every 5 minutes?

2004-12-23 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Hello, How do I get crontab to run a process every 5 minutes? Currently, it is setup as: 5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * Surely, there is a more elegant approach? Lance -- Lance Hoffmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: crontab every 5 minutes?

2004-12-23 Thread Robert Vangel
*/5 * * * Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: Hello, How do I get crontab to run a process every 5 minutes? Currently, it is setup as: 5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * Surely, there is a more elegant approach? Lance smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: crontab every 5 minutes?

2004-12-23 Thread Robert Vangel
Just noticed with the example below, there would be a 10 minute gap between 55 5 (need 0,5,10,[...],55) Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: Hello, How do I get crontab to run a process every 5 minutes? Currently, it is setup as: 5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * Surely, there is a more elegant

Re: crontab every 5 minutes?

2004-12-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 20:02 -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: Hello, How do I get crontab to run a process every 5 minutes? Currently, it is setup as: 5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * Surely, there is a more elegant approach? Yes, yes there is. $ man crontab SEE ALSO

Re: crontab every 5 minutes?

2004-12-23 Thread Andreas
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 08:02:55PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: Hello, How do I get crontab to run a process every 5 minutes? Currently, it is setup as: 5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * Surely, there is a more elegant approach? Lance sure */12 * * * * or 0-59/12 * * * *

Re: crontab every 5 minutes?

2004-12-23 Thread Adam Aube
Andreas wrote: On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 08:02:55PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: How do I get crontab to run a process every 5 minutes? Currently, it is setup as: 5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * Surely, there is a more elegant approach? sure */12 * * * * or 0-59/12 * * * *

Re: crontab every 5 minutes?

2004-12-23 Thread Joao Clemente
Andreas wrote: On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 08:02:55PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: Hello, How do I get crontab to run a process every 5 minutes? Currently, it is setup as: 5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * Surely, there is a more elegant approach? Lance sure */12 * * * * or 0-59/12 * * * *

Re: crontab every 5 minutes?

2004-12-23 Thread Andreas
Sorry to post over your answer, but Andreas, this is not correct: you should have written */5 or 0-59/5 (every 5 minutes... your versions was every 12 minutes. The '/' is not divide the time into y parts but every time 'x MOD y = 0' then run) Indeed, I got that wrong. Adam, Joao,