cron step value

Nils Kassube kassube at gmx.net
Tue Aug 13 07:49:08 UTC 2013


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





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