On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:32 PM, T o n g <mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I've got the following entry in my cron job:
>
> 1 1 1 */2 * me my-this-job
>
> How often will it execute?
>
> Checking the log, I notice that it run on Jan 1 and Mar 1. That's really
> not something that I've been expecting for. I have another cron job fired
> at Feb 1, so no doubt that my cron was working on Feb 1 and my my-this-job
> didn't get fired up then.

"*/2" means "every other month".


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