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Old July 21st, 2003, 10:42 AM
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Setting up a cron job
Hey. How would I set up a job to be run every 6 hours?

Would:
1 | 0,6,12,18 | * | * | *
be correct?

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I guess this would work too
Code:
0    */6       *       *       *       /path/to/job
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