On Saturday 21 August 2004 19:13, Alexander Dalloz wrote: >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 > Humm, so it does! Thank you Alexander. Can anyone explain why the man 1 crontab page has not been deleted? Its so worthless it certainly should be nuked, 100%, totally. 1993 copyright indeed. This is 2004 in case nobody has told Paul Vixie. [...] -- 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.
