Cron useage question
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Mon Aug 23 21:06:40 UTC 2004
Nifty Hat Mitch wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 11:30:37PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
>>On Saturday 21 August 2004 19:18, Robert Locke wrote:
>>
>>>On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 18:48, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>
>>>>Greetings;
>>>>
>>>>I have need to add a "monthly event" to my root crontab.
>
> ....
>
>>>They are in my man pages.... but let me conjecture....
>>>
>>>Are you simply typing in "man crontab"? That will show you the man
>>>page for the "crontab" command from chapter (1). Try typing in
>>>"man 5 crontab" to have it show you the information from chapter
>>>(5) which is
>
> ....
>
>>Where in the manpage info, is this defined so that I might not have to
>>ask what is in retrospect a stupid question that really does have an
>>answer if only *I* knew *where* to look?
>
>
> Where to look and the organization of chapters.
>
> intro (1) - Introduction to user commands
> intro (2) - Introduction to system calls
> intro (3) - Introduction to library functions
> intro (4) - Introduction to special files
> intro (5) - Introduction to file formats
> intro (6) - Introduction to games
> intro (7) - Introduction to conventions and miscellany section
> intro (8) - Introduction to administration and privileged commands
>
> Try man 1 intro; man 2 intro; etc.
> Also man -a intro
And "man -k crontab".
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