>
>does the following crontab entry
>01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/run.hourly
>read
>run at 1 am everyday and month run-parts ?
>
>The problem is I thought crontab entries were of the format
>
> Minute Hour DayOfMonth Month DayOfWeek Command
>eg 0 1 * * * root run-parts /etc/run.hourly
>But in run.hourly command there is an extra *, is this an error?
>
>If I change the command to
>
> /30 1 * * * root run-parts /etc/run.hourly
>
>Then this command will every half hour right ?
The answer is in the above. There are only 5 fields. The 01 is in the
first field, the minute field. It is NOT 0 minutes and 1 hour, it is 01
minutes. That means the script will be run every hour, 1 minute after the
hour. The minutes can be 000001 01 or 1. The leading zeros are unimportant.
In your second example, it will only run at 01:30, once a day.
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