Each cronjob has following syntax: # +---------------- minute (0 - 59) # | +------------- hour (0 - 23) # | | +---------- day of month (1 - 31) # | | | +------- month (1 - 12) # | | | | +---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) # | | | | | * * * * * command to be executed To get crontab to run a task every 10 minutes you could type as follow */10 * * * * /path/to/command Once you set */10, the cronjob will be executed each time that the minute can be divided by 10 without remainder. etc 10/10, 20/10 30/10 using the same idea, you can divide the * by 2 3 or 59. If you wish to run every minute, just put To get crontab to run a task every minutes you could type as follow * * * * * /path/to/command To get this to work in Solaris, use the following example 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * /path/to/command
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