Re: crontab help

Arnold, In the minutes field on crontab, you can add as many values as you want separated by a colon. Try somthing like this... 00,05,10,15,20,25 and so until 55 * * * ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ THIS IS A MINUTES FIELD WITH MANY VALUES We use it here and it does the job fine. Try reading crontab manpages for additional info. William Arnold Gamboa wrote: > > hi there. > > is there a way to tell crontab to do: > > "run script every 5 mins for 1 hour".. > > i have this mass email script that is so huge that i need it to chunk into > records and make sure that it will run every 5 mins for 1 hour. > > Thanks for any help.