Cron Job Help

[MattSMiddleton]

Hello,

At my work the guy that previously held my position made a cron job that seems to run every two hours. However, when you look at the cron tab entry it shows:

"0 * * * * rsync..."

Which should run every hour. Any suggestions as to why it would only run every other hour?

Thank you ahead of time,
Matthew

[Mateo]

what if you tried this:

0 0-23 * * * rsync...

[MattSMiddleton]

It's actually ok that it is running every other hour, I am just trying to understand why it has this behavior since the crontab entry is showing that it should run every hour. Thank you for your suggestion though.

[Mateo]

i don't know what to tell you. Your command is correct. Crontab is just a weird thing. I had a problem one time where it would only run a command for a set time (about 15 minutes) when it was supposed to run for 3 hours. Eventually it just started working right, without me changing anything.

maybe try restarting your computer?

[OffHand]

Try: 1 * * * *

[TheWizzard]

for hourly jobs, you can simply put the script in the /etc/cron.hourly/ folder.

crontab works ok, but i think you'll need to restart the con deamon after changes.

[MattSMiddleton]

Well it turns out that it was running every hour, the person who was receiving the hourly e-mails that it sent missed one so he told me that it was doing it only every other hour when it was working correctly. :lolflag: Thank you to everyone who helped me out!!