Re: question about a cron job

Jay Blanchard wrote:

[snip] I've got a question about the following cronjob.

#At 3:01 our time, run backups 1 0 * * * /usr/local/bin/php

/www/r/rester/htdocs/auto_backup/back_em_up.php

/www/r/rester/htdocs/auto_backup/cron.log 2>&1 #At 3:02 clean up sessions folder 2 0 * * * (find /www/r/rester/htdocs/sessions/ -name 'sess_*' -mtime

+1 -delete)

#this is only for testing a new cronjob, every minute * * * * * /usr/local/bin/php

/www/r/rester/htdocs/phpList_cronjob/process_cronjob.php

/www/r/rester/htdocs/phpList_cronjob/cron.log 2>>&1

The new one doesn't seem to want to run until after 3:01 or 3:02. Shouldn't the sever just run it every minute? [/snip] You have to specify each minute... http://www.unixgeeks.org/security/newbie/unix/cron-1.html

I thought the "*" in the minutes position meant to run the script for all minutes, 0.... 59. Am I wrong?