https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=104809
Kyle Evans <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #1 from Kyle Evans <[email protected]> --- Hello! It's been a long time with no response and you probably know this by now, but for anyone that may stumble upon this- this is actually intended, albeit quirky to the uninitiated, behavior. The expression "*/5" is not mathematical division but instead a step function, where "/5" indicates every 5 units of the range "*". crontab(5) documents "*" as expanded to "first-last", and allowed values for day of the month being 1-31. This would indicate that "*/5" expands to "start-end/5" to "1-31/5," meaning "every 5 units starting at 1." That being said, 1-31/5 *should* fire at 1,6,11,16,21,26,31. If it were mathematical division, it would instead fire at 5,10,15,20,25,30. "Works as intended" -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
