Hi Jeroen, If you do a "man 5 crontab", you'll get a description of the format of the crontab. Hope that helps. - Bob --- fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > From: "J.L. Coenders" <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Cron question > Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 20:15:15 +0200 > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Hi all, > I want to make a backup every night by rsyncing > everything to a second disk. I > have worked out that you need to do this with cron. I > have looked into cron > by man cron and man contab, and I searched the archive > for this, but I can't > get a solid clue how to do it. > I found out that crontab -e edits the cron information, > but I am not very good > at vim and do not really know what to do with it. > > Can anyone give me a clue? > > - Jeroen ===== Bob Rowlands browlands53@xxxxxxxxx
