setting a cron job

[Paul]

On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Jamie Griffin <jpg at gmx.com> wrote:

> ok... I've managed to edit the file successfully but now it doesn't seem
> to run. I've added the line:
>
> 2 * * * * * /usr/bin/getmail
>
> to the file but it's not fetching mail, or doesn't appear to be. Does it
> look as though there's something wrong with what i've done?
>
> Jamie



There are 5 units of time you can enter.  Each is represented by an asterisk
like so:

Minute
Hour
Day of month
Month
Day of Week

So if there are 5 asterisks, like in your example, it will run your command
every second of every hour of every day of every month.
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