http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Friend-Asked-Me-For-Some-Unix-Help-22665319 en Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:57:27 EDT Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:57:27 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Friend-Asked-Me-For-Some-Unix-Help-22665676 said by Fireblade:

But I'm not really the guy to ask, for my knowledge is fundamental in that department of Unix.

He's using the crontab utility to schedule a few jobs.

"January 2nd at 5:40am, every year."
40 5 2 */1 *
"*/1" is kind of redundant. It basically means "every one of this value column repeated each 1 interval". In other words, "*/1" is the equivalent of "*". If you meant "at 1 and only 1", you should simply put "1" in a column. The "/" notation is generally when you want to set an interval count of greater than one. For example, if you wanted something to happen every other hour, you'd put "*/2" in the hours column.
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He's using the crontab utility to schedule a few jobs.

"January 2nd at 5:40am, every year."
40 5 2 */1 *

And

"On the 15th and 28th of each month, at 6:00am, for the entire year"
0 6 15,28 * *

As well as

"Every (10) minutes, (24) hours per day, for the entire year."
*/10 * * * *

Does this look correct?

Thanks.
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