Cron useage question

[Steven Stern]

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