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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting crontab time Post 302532597 by Corona688 on Tuesday 21st of June 2011 11:15:48 AM
Old 06-21-2011
You can't include minutes in the hours field.

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You could have one entry at 12:01, and one entry for every 5 minutes...
 

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whodo(1M)																 whodo(1M)

NAME
whodo - which users are doing what SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
The command produces merged, reformatted, and dated output from the and commands (see who(1) , ps(1) and acctcom(1M)). If user is specified, output is restricted to all sessions pertaining to that user. The following options are available: Suppress the heading. Produce a long form of output. The fields displayed are: the user's login name, the name of the tty the user is on, the time of day the user logged in (in hours:minutes), the idle time - that is, the time since the user last typed anything (in hours:minutes), the CPU time used by all processes and their children on that terminal (in minutes:seconds), the CPU time used by the currently active processes (in minutes:sec- onds), and the name and arguments of the current process. EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Environment Variables determines the order in which the output is sorted. If is not specified in the environment or is set to the empty string, the value of is used as a default. If is not specified or is set to the empty string, a default of ``C'' (see lang(5)) is used instead of If any internationalization variable contains an invalid setting, behaves as if all internationalization variables are set to ``C'' (see environ(5)). FILES
SEE ALSO ps(1), who(1), acctcom(1M). STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
whodo(1M)
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