DW> I am attempting to set up an automatic poll to occur ever 
DW> so often. 6 hours at the moment. When I set the cron up to 
DW> poll my host with the settings 0 6 ( 0 min, 6 hours ) it 
DW> never goes off. What else am I missing?

DS> I don't know why it never fires, I would think that should fire at 0
DS> min, 6 hour.  (not every six hours).  I think that what you might 
DS> wantwould be 0 6,12,18,24 * * * .  I'm not 100% sure about the 24, 
DS> and to becautious I would set the cron to be something like 50 
DS> 5,11,17,23 * * *which would poll at 05:50, 11:50, 17:50 and 23:50.

WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER. Thank you very much Dale, that was the issue. I
did a test with it for hourly on the 1/2hr, 30 0,1,2,etc etc and it appears to
be working. Now to reduce the number of times I poll a day. Seems a little,
over zealous.

Darryl.
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