- +---------------- 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