From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 26 9:38:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3A6337B401 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 09:38:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp02.wlv.untd.com (smtp02.wlv.untd.com [209.247.163.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3DD5B43EA9 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 09:38:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from idiot1@netzero.net) Received: (qmail 18303 invoked from network); 26 Dec 2002 17:38:46 -0000 Received: from dialup-63.208.203.160.dial1.tampa1.level3.net (HELO netzero.net) (63.208.203.160) by smtp02.wlv.untd.com with SMTP; 26 Dec 2002 17:38:46 -0000 Message-ID: <3E0B3EAC.8070105@netzero.net> Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 12:38:52 -0500 From: Kirk Bailey Organization: Silas Dent Memorial Cabal of ERIS Esoteric and hot dog boiling society User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Jeays Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cron/crontab befuddlement References: <3E0B2984.7020405@netzero.net> <3E0B3AFB.4050607@rogers.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ok, this is making sense. Do you recall how to configure the FreeBSD so it will define a preferred editor in the environment? As of now, it runs the default of vi, which I dispise,. I have ee and pico in my box, and generally run pico. Mike Jeays wrote: > Kirk Bailey wrote: > >> ok, I read man cron and man crontab, and it's as clear as mud. >> Anyplace I can read more and maybe make the light dawn on this useful >> feature? OR, would anyone care to explain more? >> > Basically, you create a file where each line is a command to be executed > on a given schedule. The line looks like this (first line is a > descriptive comment): > > #minute hour mday month wday command > 15 5 * * * > /home/mike/bin/FindAll > > This says to run the command /home/mike/bin/FindAll at 15 minutes past > 5, every day. > The asterisks mean "ignore this field", in effect. > > Wday is the day of the week (I think Sunday=0, Monday 1 etc, but check) > Month is the month, either 1-12 or a three-letter abbreviation, such as > "Oct" > Mday is the day of the month. > > So to run something at 11:15 on October 1st, you would say: > 15 11 1 Oct * /home/me/mycommand. > > You must create this file by running "crontab -e", which will put you into > your favourite editor. You can examine the file with "crontab -l" > > That's it, in a nutshell - details are from memory, so please check! > > > > > -- end Respectfully, Kirk D Bailey +---------------------"Thou Art Free." -Eris-----------------------+ | http://www.howlermonkey.net mailto:highprimate@howlermonkey.net | | KILL spam dead! http://www.scambusters.org/stopspam/#Pledge | | http://www.tinylist.org +--------+ mailto:grumpy@tinylist.org | +------------------Thinking| NORMAL |Thinking----------------------+ +--------+ --------------------------------------------- Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message