From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: Thu Apr 10 2003 - 14:07:58 EDT
I don't think that there's any cleaner way to do it with crontab.
One option for that sort of task is to run the script just once - perhaps
from inittab - and at the end re-schedule itself with at.
Simon Green
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shawn Bierman [mailto:BiermanS@METHODISTHEALTH.ORG]
> Sent: 10 April 2003 18:30
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: crontab tricks
>
>
> Just wondering what some of the cleaner ways of running
> crontab jobs are. Someone here runs a job every 5 minutes
> with an entry like "5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55,60 * * *
> * job_name" and I know there has to be a cleaner way. Isn't
> there a way to use something like 5/0 * * * * or something to
> that nature?
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