==== Layout of crontab ==== - +---------------- minute (0 - 59) - | +------------- hour (0 - 23) - | | +---------- day of month (1 - 31) - | | | +------- month (1 - 12) - | | | | +---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) - | | | | | * * * * * /path/to/command To get cron to run a task every 10 minutes, some Unix's allow this: */10 * * * * /path/to/command