cron-job / refresh statistics

[alphaxs]

Hi there,

we'll first question for me around here.. looks pretty stupid also.. but yeah.. sorry...

We'll this is the problem, i'd wanted to let the statistics (webalizer) refresh every 4 hours.. but... noow i did included this line in my crontab configuration file (/etc/crontab)

10 */4 * * * root echo 'action=tally&value=all' >> /usr/local/directadmin/data/task.queue

But now it doesnt refresh within 3 hours..???

It still says that the last update was from 00:32 last night, and i changed te configuration file for about 5 hours ago...

ohw yeah i did not ran the command killall -HUP crond (reload the deamon) because it would't work.. so i rebooted the server.. looks fine for me to.

Anyone sees the problem????

 

[kark]

I've never seen this */4 in a crontab. Perhaps it excist but really ... I never heard of it. I have seen, for example, 0-23/2 for execution every other hour, or alternative 0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22.

Like I said, I'm not sure, but this could be a reason.

 

[alphaxs]

well, this is how it has to be done following the information from directadmin:

http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=48

so that is how i changed it.

 

[nobaloney]

/4 means divided by four.

So */4 would mean "every four".

If it were under hours it would mean every four hours; if it were days it would mean every four days.

Jeff