Crontab Strangeness

From: salvatore (salvatore_at_palmisanonet.com)
Date: 12/30/03

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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 09:07:01 -0500

    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@palmisanonet.com < /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?

    .salvatore
    http://www.sienar.org/
    http://www.palmisanonet.com/ 

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