[dundee] Cron problems

Andrew Clayton andrew at digital-domain.net
Tue Oct 23 23:02:30 BST 2007


On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:44:22 +0100, chris wyllie wrote:

> Here's the output of crontab -e:
> 
> root at Madeline[/var/www/hdmotherlode]# crontab -l
> # m h  dom mon dow   command
> * * * * * php -f /var/www/hdmotherlode/video_convertor.php

Hmm, I'm not sure how * * * * * would be interpreted, never, perhaps..
If you wanted it run every hour then use something like 7 */1 * * *

(The 7 is just so you don't have loads of stuff all happening on the
hour)

Andrew



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