Cron useage question

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 21 August 2004 19:13, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
>Am So, den 22.08.2004 schrieb Steven Stern um 0:54:
>> >I have need to add a "monthly event" to my root crontab. I know
>> > that the first two place holders (the '*'s) in the timeline are
>> > hours and minutes, but the manpages contain no hints as to what
>> > the next three '*'s represent.  I would think that after 11
>> > years, that lack of info and the resultant questions would have
>> > managed to get the manpages rewritten to include that info.
>> >
>> >Anyway, can anyone enlighten me on this please?
>>
>> 1	Minute 	0-59
>> 2	Hour 	0-23 (0 = midnight)
>> 3	Day 	1-31
>> 4	Month 	1-12
>> 5	Weekday 	0-6 (0 = Sunday)
>>
>> Google is your friend.  "crontab howto"
>>
>> http://www.tech-geeks.org/contrib/mdrone/cron&crontab-howto.htm
>
>man 5 crontab
>
>holds the information
>
Humm, so it does!  Thank you Alexander.  Can anyone explain why the 
man 1 crontab page has not been deleted?  Its so worthless it 
certainly should be nuked, 100%, totally.  1993 copyright indeed.  
This is 2004 in case nobody has told Paul Vixie.

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