[TriLUG] setting up rsync

Turnpike Man turnpike420 at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 9 17:21:50 EST 2004


Yuppers, gotcha!

I have this:

http://www.turnpike420.net/linux2/crontab.txt

but didn't realize that division could be deployed in such a manner to generate
different time results.  Learn something new everyday, so I just updated my
crontab.txt doc!  :)

Thanks!
David M.

--- "Aaron S. Joyner" <aaron at joyner.ws> wrote:
> It means every two _minutes_.  :)  Yes, you can use the --exclude option 
> with any style of rsync, as far as I'm aware.
> 
> The first column in the crontab listing is for minutes, they are in 
> order as follows:
> minute
> hour
> day of month
> month
> day of week
> 
> You can use the divide-by operator like */2 to indicate every minute (*) 
> divided by 2, thus... every other minute.
> * */2 * * * /foo/bar # would indicate every other hour.
> * * */2 * * /foo/bar # would indicate every other day
> etc
> 
<><snip>>

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