Cron useage question

[Scot L. Harris]

On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 18:48, Gene Heskett 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?
> 

The information you are looking for is in

man 5 crontab

It has the complete breakdown of the crontab entries you can make.
-- 
Scot L. Harris
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