On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 23:25, François Patte wrote: > Selon Steve Foutty <steve@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > > I'm new to Fedora and would like a little help with crontab. I have a fresh > > install and have just configured mrtg for monitoring a few devices. I tried > > to follow the documentation for crontab but can't seem to get it right. > > > > How do I put mrtg into crontab so that it runs every 5 minutes.. > > > > Thanks, > > Steve > > > > crontab -e > > then put these lines (the text editor is vi): > > SHELL=/bin/sh > > 5 * * * * /path/to/mrtg > Steve, the above example will run once per hour at 5 minutes after. To run it every 5 minutes use */5 * * * * /path/to/mrtg > man 5 crontab gives many details on the syntaxe and some examples. > > -- > François Patte > > Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient - Pune - Inde > Université René Descartes - Paris 5 > UFR de mathématiques et informatique > http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte >
