On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 09:07, salvatore wrote: > Last night I created a crontab entry to check yum for available updates, and > instead of it running once at the given time, it ran once a minute for an > hour. > Here's the entry: > > * 5 * * * yum check-update > /home/salvatore/yum.log; mail -s "yum > check-update results" salvatore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx < /home/salvatore/yum.log > > I thought the 5 in the second position meant to run once at 5am? I have > other similar crontab entries which run as expected once an hour; what's > wrong with that one? The 5 in the 2nd column does indeed mean 5am, but the * in your 1st column tells it to run every minute. If you want it to run at 5am, put a zero in the 1st column, which tells it to only run at the 0 minute (5:00). -- Jason Dixon, RHCE DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
