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List:       suse-linux-e
Subject:    Re: [SLE] crontab problem
From:       Anders Johansson <andjoh () rydsbo ! net>
Date:       2004-04-01 11:57:23
Message-ID: 200404011357.23971.andjoh () rydsbo ! net
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On Thursday 01 April 2004 13.55, Enis Büyükgüner wrote:
> Hi list
>
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> I have a quick question about crontab. When I add a job into cron by using
> crontab -e. for instance "5 * * * * echo "hello"  >> /var/log/test" . it
> doesn't work every  5 min. what should I do. I'm waiting for your helps

5 * * * * means "every time the big hand is at 5". For "every five minutes, do

*/5 * * * *

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