Re: little crontab question?

[Christopher Linn <celinn@mtu.edu>]

hi martin,

On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 12:52:47AM -0230, Martin Marconcini wrote:
> Hello list:
> 
> I'd like to run every 4 hours a script, not as root but under user
> whatever.
> 
> As root I did: 
> 
> crontab -u whatever -e (to edit crontab). vi popped up and I entered the
> following lines...
> 
> #minute hour    mday    month   wday    command
> #
> 0       4       *       *       *       /home/whatever/build/build_test

i think you want something like this:

0	0,4,8,12,16,20	* * *	/home/whatever/build/build_test

that is:  execute at midnight, 4am, 8am, 12 noon, 4pm, 8pm...

is this what you want?

[...]
> Martin Marconcini


chris

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