man 5 crontab may help Otherwise 30 * * * * /home/user1/fetchmymail.sh Cheers Derek On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 15:40, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > How do you set up a cron job such that fetchmail runs hourly? I'm getting > fetchmail to poll the Company Exchange server. I would like to run is as > that user and not root. > > Currently I have > > user1@server] crontab -e > 30 06 * * * /home/user1/fetchmymail.sh > 30 07 * * * /home/user1/fetchmymail.sh > > which works fine, but The thing is I would like it to poll like hourly and > not go to the extent of putting a cron line for every hour I want it polled. > I tried using webmin and got > > @hourly /home/user1/fetchmymail.sh > > which _does_ not work. (oh btw,I think this can be acomplish by putting that > into the cron.hourly directory but again, that would need root privledge > right?) > > ANy help would be appreciated > > Thanks > > Ow -- ================================================================ Derek Benson BTh BA Assistant Systems Programmer Server and Security Systems Tel: +61 7 336 53959 Information Technology Services Fax: +61 7 336 54995 The University of Queensland Email: derek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ================================================================ -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
