On Sat, 25 Mar 1995, Charles M. Hannum wrote:

> 
>    *       *       */24    *       *       /usr/local/bin/lynx -dump http://some.random.url
> 
> I don't know what you *expect* that to do, but what it does is run
> that program once per minute (or as fast as the previous copies exit)
> on the 24th day of the month, which is probably not what you intended.
> 
> Please read the crontab(5) man page.

My fault.  That would explain it.  I copied a different line without looking
assuming that the 24 was for hours.  *Smack*

-
John