Cron question

[Bob Rowlands]

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 at redhat.com wrote:
> From: "J.L. Coenders" <fedora at universalgrid.nl>
> Subject: Cron question
> Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 20:15:15 +0200
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> 
> 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


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Bob Rowlands   browlands53 at yahoo.com