From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jdr@wa5rrh.org Subject: Re: crontab syntax ? Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 18:09:45 -0500 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3EE22A69.1198.A50291A@localhost> References: <3EE265D9.56EA90D0@gelm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-reply-to: <3EE265D9.56EA90D0@gelm.net> Content-description: Mail message body List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Chuck Gelm , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org On 7 Jun 2003 at 18:23, Chuck Gelm wrote: > Thanks, Ray: > > Odd, here is a segment of (*my*) 'man crontab' showing > the example lines. Every example has 'date' as the 6th field. :-| > (*my* = slackware-8.0, kernel-2.2.19, firewall, ip-masq) > Maybe the examples show how to run the 'date' program? > > # MIN HOUR DAY MONTH DAYOFWEEK COMMAND > # at 6:10 a.m. every day > 10 6 * * * date > Yeah, it's showing you how to run 'date' at various times and intervals. Here's a bit of what Red Hat's "man 5 crontab" says (for what it's worth): The time and date fields are: field allowed values ----- -------------- minute 0-59 hour 0-23 day of month 1-31 month 1-12 (or names, see below) day of week 0-7 (0 or 7 is Sun, or use names) -jdr- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs