Re: Cron useage question

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On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 11:30:37PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 21 August 2004 19:18, Robert Locke wrote:
> >On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 18:48, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> Greetings;
> >>
> >> I have need to add a "monthly event" to my root crontab.
....
> >They are in my man pages.... but let me conjecture....
> >
> >Are you simply typing in "man crontab"?  That will show you the man
> > page for the "crontab" command from chapter (1).  Try typing in
> > "man 5 crontab" to have it show you the information from chapter
> > (5) which is
....
> Where in the manpage info, is this defined so that I might not have to 
> ask what is in retrospect a stupid question that really does have an 
> answer if only *I* knew *where* to look?

Where to look and the organization of chapters.

intro   (1)  - Introduction to user commands
intro   (2)  - Introduction to system calls
intro   (3)  - Introduction to library functions
intro   (4)  - Introduction to special files
intro   (5)  - Introduction to file formats
intro   (6)  - Introduction to games
intro   (7)  - Introduction to conventions and miscellany section
intro   (8)  - Introduction to administration and privileged commands

Try man 1 intro; man 2 intro; etc.
Also man -a intro




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