quickie question about a cron job

[tuxxer]

Basically I set up an email account to recieve messages that are forwarded from gmail, it goes through the server and then gets sent to my Tungsten as a sms message.

I did the suggested get /blah/blah / /dev/null as the cpanel hint suggested but am curious about the time thing

min hour day month weekday

10 * * * *

Would the above mean that the email server should be polled every ten minutes ? or am I missing something.

Tuxxer

[jason]

No, a 10 in that field will tell cron to run 10 minutes after the hour. Since you the next field, hour, set to "*," this command would run every hour at 10 past the hour.

To get it to run every ten minutes, use */10. You can also supply a list of specific times that you want it to run, like 0,10,20,30,40,50 which would run the job at 10 past, 20 past, half past, twenty to, and 10 to the hour (which would be the same as */10).

These work in all fields: */2 in the day of month field would run the job every other day, for example, and 0,2,4,6 in the day of week field would run it Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

Hope that helps.

--Jason

[tuxxer]

No, a 10 in that field will tell cron to run 10 minutes after the hour. Since you the next field, hour, set to "*," this command would run every hour at 10 past the hour.

To get it to run every ten minutes, use */10. You can also supply a list of specific times that you want it to run, like 0,10,20,30,40,50 which would run the job at 10 past, 20 past, half past, twenty to, and 10 to the hour (which would be the same as */10).

These work in all fields: */2 in the day of month field would run the job every other day, for example, and 0,2,4,6 in the day of week field would run it Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

Hope that helps.

--Jason

I reset the cron job to */10 in the minutes field , now to wait and see if it works.

Thanks Jason

tuxxer