From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 5 19:34:26 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 7C71A16A41F for ; Fri, 5 Aug 2005 19:34:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail21.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail21.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3940B43D46 for ; Fri, 5 Aug 2005 19:34:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 2105 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2005 19:34:25 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail21.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 5 Aug 2005 19:34:25 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id BC4902E; Fri, 5 Aug 2005 15:34:24 -0400 (EDT) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: "cell" References: <007c01c599f3$67edfd80$0301a8c0@danielle> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 05 Aug 2005 15:34:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: <007c01c599f3$67edfd80$0301a8c0@danielle> Message-ID: <44psssch4v.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with crontab X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 19:34:26 -0000 "cell" writes: > Hello , i have problem with crontab , i tried to configure crontab for run command every three days at 5h00 AM.I use this command but i believe it's not good : > > 0 5 1-31/3 * * root cd /home/rootfix/Maildir/cur && rm -f * > > > Anyone have a solution ? What is the actual problem? It looks like it will work fine. [on the first, fourth, etc.]