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@Ganeshwari, why do you have to use cron?

Don't use cron. It wasn't designed for that.

Just start a job, perhaps a wrapper, that runs your script every 4 hours.

Don't understand what triggers the start of this recursive process.

What would you type to cause this event?

You can setup cron to run @ specific start time only and use something like this :

15 9 * * * yourjob.sh

With yourjob.sh :


INTERVAL=14400 ## 4 hours in seconds
ITT=4 ## number of...

15 */4 30 05 * /usr/bin/date >>/tmp/cronout