123finder.com — Sun, 20 Aug 2000 22:48:50 +0000

Be sure to use the right path to your script & if it needs any parameters, pass them in.

Sun, 20 Aug 2000 20:17:59 +0000

Max,

Crontab uses a 24 hour clock (military time). So that would be 0500 or 5am.

Benliong,

I as well don’t see anything wrong with your syntax. But haven’t setup a job in close to a year. Maybe try contacting your host and make sure they allow jobs? I know with one of my clients hosts you can set jobs up but they never run.

http://ibgwww.colorado.edu/~lessem/psyc5112/usail/automation/cron.html basically describes the essentials of using cron jobs. I had another tutorial which was illustrated but it seems to have vanished.

Hope that helps..

Mark Hensler — Sun, 20 Aug 2000 19:53:01 +0000

I've never used cron before (never heard of it either). Just curious...

Would 0 5 * * * be 5AM everyday? or every 5 hours?

Orpheus — Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:34:43 +0000

Your syntax is right, i'm not sure when exactly you want the script to execute but that will run every morning at 5 am.

1 Minute
2 Hour
3 Day
4 Month
5 Day of the week

So if you want to execute a command every 5 minutes you would say "5 * * * * command"

Or at least I think thats it... It's been a while since I used cron.

Thats the only advice I can give you.