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Old 07-21-2006
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Need help in crontab?
Can anyone please help me here i am trying to schedule a job in CRON I want to run it every five minutes.
When i try to save getting following error message
OS is HP UNIX

"/var/tmp/aaaa01326" 1 line, 82 characters
*/5 * * * * /home/oracle/run.sh >> /home/oracle/logs/run.log 2>&1
crontab: error on previous line; unexpected character found in line

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Hi,

You have made syntactical error ("*5"). Just change it as 0-59/5 and let me know if it doesn't works for you.

Thank you,
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Thanks for your response but it didn't help still same error

"/var/tmp/aaaa01326" 1 line, 82 characters
0-59/5 * * * * /home/oracle/run.sh >> /home/oracle/logs/run.log 2>&1
crontab: error on previous line; unexpected character found in line
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Thanks for your response but it didn't help still same error

"/var/tmp/aaaa01326" 1 line, 82 characters
0-59/5 * * * * /home/oracle/run.sh >> /home/oracle/logs/run.log 2>&1
crontab: error on previous line; unexpected character found in line
not all crontabs support this syntax. Try listing ALL the minutes explicitely:
Code:
0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /home/oracle/run.sh >> /home/oracle/logs/run.log 2>&1
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