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Operating Systems Solaris How to run cron entry every 5 min during office hours only? Post 302988157 by rbatte1 on Wednesday 21st of December 2016 08:04:05 AM
Old 12-21-2016
Some cron servers also accept this syntax:-
Code:
*/5 8-17 * * * /your/command/here

This is the step from the zero of that item, so should be a factor of the maximum, e.g. 2, 3, 4, 6 or 12 for the hours. I can't see a neat way to do it every 10 minutes replacing 5,15,25,35,45,55, although you could build it something like this:-
Code:
*/10 * * * * bash -c "/bin/sleep 300 ; /your/command/here"

The best place to check if your host supports it is the manual page for the file crontab.
Often this can be found with man 5 crontab but check with man -k crontab to get the various options for pages you can read, such as Unix.com man page for crontab file




I hope that this helps,
Robin
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