crontab: question about a special case of the dash character in the time field spec
- by mdpc
In the SuSE /etc/crontab the entry to run the cron.{hourly,daily,monthly,weekly} scripts is coded as:
-*/15 * * * * root test -x /usr/lib/cron/run-crons && /usr/lib/cron/run-crons /dev/null 2&1
Notice that the very first character of the specification is a dash character (-), and this is NOT a typo.
Can somebody explain what the time spec '-*/15' means?
BTW, the stuff seems to be running fine.
Thanks