[ale] crontab question

[fletch at phydeaux.org (Fletch)]

>>>>> "Armsby" == Armsby John-G <Armsby> writes:

    Armsby> I am on redhat 8.0.  I want to run a script every other
    Armsby> hour.  Since this was a new install, I simply copied the
    Armsby> format of an HPUX cron.  The cron does not run.  Is my
    Armsby> syntax bad??

[...]

    Armsby> 1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21 * * * /home/dc/bin/getFiles.scr

You're missing a minute field (should be 5 -- minute hour dom month
dow).  Also you might consider "1-23/2" (or */2 if 0,2,4,... would
work).

See man 5 crontab

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