On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 18:48:26 -0400, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Greetings; > >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 -- Steve
