[ale] Bonehead crontab mistake

[djpfulio at jdpfu.com (DJ-Pfulio)]

Correct.  Saw Derek's answer too.

And the fix was to pick any minute for the task to run.

#m h  dom mon dow   command
7 */2  *  *  * /usr/bin/php -f /var/www/html/nextcloud/cron.php

Been doing this 25+ yrs and still made this mistake. Now I can redirect stdout
to /dev/null, so only exceptions cause an email. ;)

On 12/22/2016 07:10 PM, Ben Coleman wrote:
> On 12/22/2016 06:52 PM, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
>> Thought I'd share this mistake I made with a crontab.
>>
>> Wanted an RSS feed update job to run every other hour, so entered ...
>>
>>
>> #m h  dom mon dow   command
>> * */2  *  *  * /usr/bin/php -f /var/www/html/nextcloud/cron.php
>>
>> into the appropriate crontab.  See the mistake? It isn't spacing.
> 
> It runs every minute of every other hour?
>