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foxfirefey ([personal profile] foxfirefey) wrote in [community profile] command_liners2010-01-01 01:48 am
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Cron Sandbox

cron is a time based job scheduler in *nix systems that lets you run a given command at specified times. I just had to compose a chron entry, and found this Cron Sandbox that lets me enter in the values I'm trying to use for specifying the times to run the command (every fifteen minutes turned out to be 0,15,30,45 * * * *). It was really helpful, because I'm not very experienced with cron as I've only had to ever use it a couple of times. Once you set it up, it just keeps chugging along without needing much maintenance!
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[personal profile] sophie 2010-01-02 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, a lot of people probably don't notice it because people tend to use factors of 60 anyway - */5, */10, */15 and */30 probably being the most common. (Of course, there are others.) I just had to be the one to use one that *isn't* a factor...
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