ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 54, Issue 125

[Gregory Zill]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:41 PM,  Lubbers, Nicholas wrote:
>> Use cron for this.
>>
>> crontab -e
>> 10 * * * * /path/to/script
>
> Won't that run every hour on the 10 minutes (e.g. 1:10, 2:10, 3:10),
> etc, but not every 10 minutes?  It's possible I'm wrong, but I think the
> right syntax is:
>
> */10 * * * * /path/to/script
>
> Matt Flaschen
>

In crontab, this is the minutes column. So the shorthand indicates
that when the minute, and minute only, is evenly divisible by 10 (mod)
the script will fire.

One of the other posts will result in hourly at ten minutes after
every hour, example
10 * * * * /path/to/script

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therefore you must use your own.

Gregory W Zill, MBA, CISSP