Index: INSTALL.txt
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RCS file: /cvs/drupal/drupal/INSTALL.txt,v
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diff -u -r1.80 INSTALL.txt
--- INSTALL.txt	30 Apr 2010 08:09:21 -0000	1.80
+++ INSTALL.txt	24 May 2010 17:40:26 -0000
@@ -252,13 +252,14 @@
 
    Most systems support using a crontab utility for automatically executing
    tasks like visiting the cron.php page. The following example crontab line
-   uses wget to automatically visit the cron.php page each hour, on the hour:
+   uses wget to automatically visit the cron.php page every three hours:
 
-   0   *   *   *   *   wget -O - -q -t 1 http://www.example.com/cron.php?cron_key=RANDOMTEXT
+   X   */3   *   *   *   wget -O - -q -t 1 http://www.example.com/cron.php?cron_key=RANDOMTEXT
 
-   Replace the text "http://www.example.com/cron.php?cron_key=RANDOMTEXT" in the
-   example with the full URL displayed under "Cron maintenance tasks" on the
-   "Status report" page.
+   Replace the X at the beginning of the example with a random value between 0
+   and 59 (this is a particular minute of an hour), and replace the URL
+   "http://www.example.com/cron.php?cron_key=RANDOMTEXT" in the example with the
+   full URL displayed under "Cron maintenance tasks" on the"Status report" page.
 
    More information about cron maintenance tasks are available in the help pages
    and in Drupal's online handbook at http://drupal.org/cron. Example cron scripts