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Cronjob

This documents gives details about the cronjob run options: This field follows the syntax of cron (with minor differences). Specifically, each line consists of 5 fields separated by TAB or whitespace: MINUTE HOUR DOM MONTH DOW MINUTE Minutes within the hour (0–59) HOUR The hour of the day (0–23) DOM The day of the month (1–31) MONTH The month (1–12) DOW The day of the week (0–7) where 0 and 7 are Sunday. To specify multiple values for one field, the following operators are available. In the order of precedence, *  specifies all valid values M-N  specifies a range of values M-N/X  or  */X  steps by intervals of X through the specified range or whole valid range A,B,...,Z  enumerates multiple values To allow periodically scheduled tasks to produce even load on the system, the symbol  H  (for “hash”) should be used wherever possible. For example, using  0 0 * * *  for a dozen daily jobs will cause a large spike at midn...