Wayne Topa wrote: > > Subject: Re: cron, crontab, etc. > Date: Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 10:12:39AM -0400 > > In reply to:Wayne Topa > > Quoting Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > Subject: cron, crontab, etc. > > Date: Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 01:07:09PM +0100 > > > > In reply to:Patrick Kirk > > > > Quoting Patrick Kirk([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I want to schedule a command to run updatebd every 6 hours. The man pages > > > for cron and crontab don't have any useful info on how. > > > > > > How do I do this? > > > > > > Patrick > > > > In /etc/crontab I do this > > 30 5 * * * root nice -10 /root/bin/dodb 2>&1 > /dev/null > > /root/bin/dodb
actually the most eficient will be: 0 */6 * * * etc... Daniel Ruoso