Re: Executing a Script every hour

From: Monique Y. Herman (spam_at_bounceswoosh.org)
Date: 09/30/03

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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 21:14:36 +0000 (UTC)

    On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 22:11:19 +0200, Christof Hurschler <hurschler@gmx.de> penned:
    > Hi,
    >
    > I've scanned the cron man pages, but it seems that cron is only set up to do
    > daily, weekly, and monthly jobs in Debian.
    >
    > Is there a simpe way to have a script execute at shorter time intervals. I'd
    > like to run the swendeleter.pl script automatically every so often to keep my
    > mailbox from overfiling.
    >
    > Thanks,
    >
    > Chris

    The keyword for an hourly job is @hourly, or you could use I believe
    0 0 * * * 

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