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 Message 571 
 Darryl Wood to Paul Quinn 
 Argus & Polling 
 24 Mar 19 01:04:58 
 
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PQ> On 23 Mar 19 21:17, you wrote to All:

DW> I am attempting to set up an automatic poll to occur ever so often. 6
DW> hours at the moment. When I set the cron up to poll my host with the
DW> settings 0 6 ( 0 min, 6 hours ) it never goes off. What else am I
DW> missing?

PQ> It's been a while since I poked at these things...  I'd say that that 
PQ> would go off at 0600hrs every day, like once only.  What you need is 
PQ> "0 */6", I think.  It should then go off at: 0000, 0600, 1200. and, 
PQ> 1800hrs.
PQ> Did that help?

Thats what I had it for in my first attempt, and it never went off. I even
went as far at 0 1 for hourly, never saw it go off as per the logs at least.

Darryl.
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