Will this crontab work right?

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Published on 2010-04-06T21:31:23Z Indexed on 2010/04/06 21:33 UTC
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I added two lines to my crontab:

0,4,1,* * * * * /srv/vhostsbackup.sh

30,4,1,* * * * * /srv/dbbackup.sh

Both sh should be executed one time at the first day of a month. Would they work?

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