Hej Newsgroup,

yes it works :) ( with the asterix )

But i'm a little bit confused, because it works only as a user cron.
I tested it as root, but that was not working for somehow. 

Thanks, Z.


> On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 10:49, Chris Pinnock wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 11:33:59AM +0200, Zafer Aydogan wrote:
> > > Hej Newsgroup, 
> > > 
> > > Why doesn't cron understand this:
> > > 
> > > */5 * * * * command
> > > 
> > > to repeat a command every 5 minutes ?
> > 
> > According to the manual page crontab(5) this should work.
> > 
> >        Step values can be used in conjunction with ranges.  Following a 
> range
> >        with  ``/<number>''  specifies  skips of the number's value
> through the
> >        range.  For example, ``0-23/2'' can be used in the hours field to
> spec-
> >        ify command execution every other hour (the alternative in the V7
> stan-
> >        dard is ``0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22'').  Steps are also 
> permitted
> >        after  an asterisk, so if you want to say ``every two hours'',
> just use
> >        ``*/2''.
> 
> It certainly works for me.  In fact, the default root entry uses it for
> atrun...
> 
> */10 *   *   *   *   /usr/libexec/atrun                      
> 
> Check that you have permission to run cron jobs on the machine...
> 
> R.
>