Crontab question

[jlakhani]

Hello,
I wanted to setup a script to run in crontab everyday except 7 days a week every hour.

i know how to tell crontab at what specific time to start a job but how do i tell it to run every hour?

thanks
jigar

[sreddy]

I'am not sure, But it should work. Set minutes column '60' and leave hours coloumn '*' and so the rest of the columns like month and week etc., depending on the days of the week you want to run...

[pwoneill]

Yeah that should work, except I think cron is 0-59 and will never hit 60.

59 * * * * /path/script

or 0 to start at the bottom of the hour, 30 to run at the middle of the hour, you get the idea.

Edit:

Oh if you didn't want 7 days a week you would have to set the days column to whatever you wanted.

[Edited by pwoneill on 12-21-2000 at 06:25 PM]

[sreddy]

Thanks Advisor, I thought logically , didn't look into syntax part.

[Kishore]

Yes, you need to put 0 at minutes or 59 to make it to work every hour.