cron step value

[thufir]

On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 09:49:08 +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:

> 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

aha!  this makes me think of mod.


thanks,

Thufir