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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Run cronjob for every 10 minutes Post 302815085 by Jotne on Friday 31st of May 2013 01:59:22 AM

05-31-2013

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Both seems to work, but
10,20,30,40,50 2-6 * * * does not run on the hour (2:00, 3:00 etc), adding 00 does not work 00,10,20,30,40,50 2-6 * * *

*/10 2-6 * * *
gives

Code:

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