On Saturday 21 August 2004 18:54, Steven Stern wrote: >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) > Thanks, I should the friggin thing and frame that on the wall maybe. :) >Google is your friend. "crontab howto" > >http://www.tech-geeks.org/contrib/mdrone/cron&crontab-howto.htm Actually, there is another link there in the first page of hits that takes you to a script that has you setup what it is that you want to do, and it then writes the line for you, so all you have to do is cut & paste into the insert enabled (vim) crontab -e screen. Kewl. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.24% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
