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 -- T o m M i t c h e l l Just say no to 74LS73 in 2004
