Cron useage question
Nifty Hat Mitch
mitch48 at sbcglobal.net
Mon Aug 23 21:02:46 UTC 2004
On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 11:30:37PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 21 August 2004 19:18, Robert Locke wrote:
> >On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 18:48, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> Greetings;
> >>
> >> I have need to add a "monthly event" to my root crontab.
....
> >They are in my man pages.... but let me conjecture....
> >
> >Are you simply typing in "man crontab"? That will show you the man
> > page for the "crontab" command from chapter (1). Try typing in
> > "man 5 crontab" to have it show you the information from chapter
> > (5) which is
....
> Where in the manpage info, is this defined so that I might not have to
> ask what is in retrospect a stupid question that really does have an
> answer if only *I* knew *where* to look?
Where to look and the organization of chapters.
intro (1) - Introduction to user commands
intro (2) - Introduction to system calls
intro (3) - Introduction to library functions
intro (4) - Introduction to special files
intro (5) - Introduction to file formats
intro (6) - Introduction to games
intro (7) - Introduction to conventions and miscellany section
intro (8) - Introduction to administration and privileged commands
Try man 1 intro; man 2 intro; etc.
Also man -a intro
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