> 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)?
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> I'm thinking 6am only. Do I understand this correctly?
if you put just a 6 in the hour field, then it will only run at 6am. If you
want it to run at more than that hour, then you would do something like:
* 6,14 * * * command <--- runs at 6am and 2pm
* */6 * * * command <--- runs every 6 hours starting at midnight
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