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What does this Crontab Entry Mean?

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What does this Crontab Entry Mean?
« on: July 21, 2005, 09:02:22 PM »
Logrotate is running EVERYDAY for Hours and KILLING my CPU time to where I have to KILL the process. Following the tree below I dont understand why the */7 is there. (I didn't put this in crontab to begin with)


# logrotate
12 1 */7 * * root /sbin/e-smith/signal-event logrotate



*     *   *   *    *  command to be executed
-     -    -    -    -
|     |     |     |     |
|     |     |     |     +----- day of week (1 - 7) (monday = 1)
|     |     |     +------- month (1 - 12)
|     |     +--------- day of month (1 - 31)
|     +----------- hour (0 - 23)
+------------- min (0 - 59)