cron job question

[sabret00the]

is it possible to get a cron job to run every 2.5 hours and have it running outside of the cron directory at all?

[Colin F]

outside of the cron directory is possible, I'd guess, as you need to specify the path to the file.

Running it everyt 2.5 hours is harder...

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Set it up twice, every half and full hour.

Then save the last runtime, and if not more then 2:15 hours ago, stop.

[sabret00the]

if i just set the minutes, let's say 60 then left it, would it then run every 60 minutes?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Yes, if you set it only to 15 minutes, it would run 15 minutes after every hour.

[sabret00the]

that's awesome, thanks marco :)