From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 5 19:36:42 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 62AB716A41F for ; Fri, 5 Aug 2005 19:36:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from smtp1.utdallas.edu (smtp1.utdallas.edu [129.110.10.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C3F343D46 for ; Fri, 5 Aug 2005 19:36:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from utd59514.utdallas.edu (utd59514.utdallas.edu [129.110.3.28]) by smtp1.utdallas.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DE1F38912E; Fri, 5 Aug 2005 14:36:41 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 14:36:41 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl To: cell , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <007c01c599f3$67edfd80$0301a8c0@danielle> References: <007c01c599f3$67edfd80$0301a8c0@danielle> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.1.6 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: Subject: Re: Problems with crontab X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 19:36:42 -0000 --On Friday, August 05, 2005 21:25:14 +0200 cell wrote: > 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 ? > 0 5 * * 0,3 is about as close as you can come Or 0 5 1,4,7,10,13,16,19,22,25,28 * * See man (5) crontab Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/