[rescue] Speaking of backups, scripting division

Greg A. Woods woods at weird.com
Mon Nov 11 11:06:38 CST 2002


[ On Monday, November 11, 2002 at 09:53:57 (-0500), Mike F wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Speaking of backups, scripting division
>
> I can confirm this (*/x) works under OpenBSD and FreeBSD, but
> I haven't been able to make it work under Solaris 9.

RTFM.

Most freeware systems use a re-implementation of the AT&T SysV cron done
by Paul Vixie.  That's where the "*/x" syntax first appeared.

If you want to do that on Solaris then you have to replace the Solaris
cron with the Vixie implementation.

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