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|    Darryl Wood to Paul Quinn    |
|    Argus & Polling    |
|    24 Mar 19 01:04:58    |
      MSGID: 1:229/354 5C971E0A       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.       * SPITFIRE v3.6 ---[ Thunder-Storm BBS ]--- thunder-storm.ca:10023       --- Alexi/Mail 2.02b (UNREG)        * Origin: Thunder-Storm BBS @ Thunder-Storm.ca:10023 (1:229/354)       SEEN-BY: 15/2 123/1970 226/17 229/107 275 354 426 452 728 1014 240/5832       SEEN-BY: 249/206 317 280/464 292/854 317/3 322/757 342/200 393/68       SEEN-BY: 633/280       PATH: 229/354 426           |
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