cron syntax (leafnode)

[Thufir]

On Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:47:02 +1000, Karl Auer wrote:


>>      3	8 * * * *  news if [ -x /etc/news/leafnode/do-fetch-news 
]; then
>>      /
>>
>> but fetchnews is running every hour.
> 
> That means "run at the eight minute of every hour of every day of every
> week of every month".


Ah, thanks for explaining that.  I'll just change it to 17 or 38 or 
something equally random.  I'm drawing the inference that I'm hitting 
gmane at the same time as other people from the relative frequency errors 
from them.

thanks for explaining it.  

BTW, it wouldn't work to use the /*n so that it runs every n minutes?  
and just make n, maybe, err, 67 or 101 or something?  I thought that was 
valid syntax.


-Thufir