On Saturday 21 August 2004 23:16, Gene Heskett wrote: >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. :) ^ print > >>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. -- 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.
