On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 18:48, Gene Heskett 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? > The information you are looking for is in man 5 crontab It has the complete breakdown of the crontab entries you can make. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx Hurricane Charley survivor Confirmed 105 MPH winds 3 Days 9.5 hours without power