how to use crontab and cron.daily

Scott R. Godin scott.g at mhg2.com
Thu Jul 6 14:43:36 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 09:26 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 10:01 +0530, yogesh at banasdairy.coop wrote:
> > hi
> > 
> > how can i use crontab and cron.daily
> > plese try to explain with example:
> 
> > 
> I don't what the web sites say. But I doubt if you really want to use
> cron-daily. There is a crontab file that allows you to control the time
> and date for things to happen. It form is explained in man 5 crontab.
> 
> Each user can have his own crontab file. It can be edited with
>  crontab -e
> -- 
> Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
> 

there's also 
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/S/SB/SBURKE/crontab2english_0.71.pl
which is handy for converting the output of crontab -l into something
you can read. 

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