>> If I have a 6 in the hour field of a crontab >> entry, does that mean the job will run only at 6am >> or will it run at 4pm too (16:00)? >> >> I'm thinking 6am only. Do I understand this correctly? Kevin> if you put just a 6 in the hour field, then it Kevin> will only run at 6am. If you want it to run at Kevin> more than that hour, then you would do Kevin> something like: Kevin> * 6,14 * * * command <--- runs at 6am and 2pm I believe as shown, this would every single minute from 6:00 to 6:59, and 14:00 to 14:49. If that's not the intent, then substitute a 0 (or some other integer representing minutes after the hour) for the first asterisk. -- Lynn David Newton Phoenix, AZ