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Crontab scheduling

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My OS is Solaris 10. I want to schedule a job which i need to run between morining 6 to eve 6 once for every 2 hours. This is what i did.

0 6-18 * * 1-5 /monitor.sh

It runs for every hour how to make it for every two hours ......

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0 6,8,10,12,14,16,18 * * 1-5 /monitor.sh

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