On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 01:13:00AM +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 01:13:00 +0200 > From: Alexander Dalloz <alexander.dalloz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Cron useage question > Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > 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 >From the cron man page. SEE ALSO crontab(1), crontab(5) So "man -a crontab" or "man 1 crontab" or "man 5 crontab" The -a flag for man is a good thing. -- T o m M i t c h e l l Just say no to 74LS73 in 2004
