I saw an example at http://www.marksanborn.net/linux/learning-cron-by-example/
for a cron job as follows:
It explains:
Using the ‘/’ allows us to divide the day into chunks.
Here, the tasks is executed every 4 hours (24/6 =4).
59 */6 * * * /home/username/backupsite
I wonder if the explanation is correct after looking around. In this example,
the cron job will be run at:
12:59am, 4:59am, 8:59am, 12:59pm, 4:59pm and 8:59pm
But my interpretation is that it is run every 6 hours (step/interval) instead:
12:59am, 6:59am, 12:59pm and 6:59pm
Am I wrong (or right)? How do we interpret the step?
Goh, Yong Kwang
Singapore
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