Cron useage question
Steven Stern
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Sat Aug 21 22:54:11 UTC 2004
On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 18:48:26 -0400, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
wrote:
>Greetings;
>
>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
--
Steve
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