Run Cron Job On Specific Minute?

Question

I need to run a cron job on the 3rd minute of every hour, every day.

Here's what I currently have:

3 * * * *

Is that how you correctly do it or would that run it every 3 minutes instead?

Answer 1

That is correct!

If you would like to run a job every third minute you could do like this:

*/3 * * * *