crontab help

[Ben Steeves]

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 09:55:16 +0530, François Patte
<francois.patte at math-info.univ-paris5.fr> wrote:
> Selon Steve Foutty <steve at foutty.org>:
> > How do I put mrtg into crontab so that it runs every 5 minutes..
> >
> then put these lines (the text editor is vi):
> 
> SHELL=/bin/sh
> 
> 5 * * * * /path/to/mrtg

Actually, that will run it at 5 minutes after every hour (e.g., 1:05,
2:05, etc...).  What he really wants is:

*/5 * * * * /path/to/mrtg

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