[ale] Bonehead crontab mistake

[Ben Coleman]

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?

Ben
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