CRON issue

[Carl Reynolds]

Rick Stevens wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 16:41 +0000, Tech Guy wrote:
>
 > <snip...>
>
>>then I added entries in the CRON:
>>
>>15 10 * * * /home/test/test.sh > /home/test/testcron.out 2>&1
>>-----------------------------------
>>
 > <snip...>
> Also note that the cron job as shown only runs the script once, at
> 10:15 a.m.  For testing purposes, you might try "5 * * * *" to run it
> every 5 minutes until you sort it out
 >
> 

"5 * * * *" would run the script a five minutes after every hour. To run 
the script every five minutes enter "*/5 * * * * "




Carl.