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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Stupid question Post 302105002 by freakydancer on Tuesday 30th of January 2007 07:07:26 AM
Old 01-30-2007
Stupid question

Hi all,

Please excuse my ignorance - I'm a Cisco kid and my knowledge of Unix is somewhat flaky!!

Basically we're running MRTG on an HP-UX server and wondered what the "-" means in the following text within the crontab file -

-* * * * * root /home/mrtg/fwdev01.sh

I know that ./ is an executable commands, but we have't a clue what this means!!

Any help appreciated!!!

Last edited by freakydancer; 01-30-2007 at 09:02 AM..
 

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