thufir wrote: > now, every, let's say, two hours I want to run "killall fetchnews" > because it has a tendency to stall. Would that look like: > > > #cron to kill defunct fetchnews > * */2 * * * killall fetchnews No, that would kill fetchnews every minute during even hours. It should rather be something like this: 13 */2 * * * killall fetchnews Nils