Cron useage question

Alexander Dalloz alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Sat Aug 21 23:13:00 UTC 2004


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

> --
>    Steve

Steve, btw. this is no valid signature divider. You use "--" while it
has to be "-- ", means 2 hyphens plus a white space :)

Alexander
   

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