Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 12:17:17 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "Brennan W Stehling" <brennan@offwhite.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: "bad day_of_the_month" (yes really !!!) cron questions Message-ID: <01be01bfb638$6d9c0af0$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005041953560.55716-100000@home.offwhite.net>
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Thanks Brennan > When you set a cron job, you need to insert it into you cron file. This > is explained in the con manpage so I will be brief. > My "man cron" is only about 20 lines long, and there's not so much as a mention of how one "sets" a cron job. "Man crontab" is only slightly less cryptic, and again fails to tell one anything of value about the system crontab, or how to specify a particular job to be run. All I can find on the subject in the mailing list archives suggests that its not a good thing to use "crontab" with any switch to edit the system crontab. > I personally get confused when I set set cron jobs, so I always have cheat > notes in that file. I get confused trying to comprehend man pages !!! Seems the writers of those things assume the reader is either a mind-reader or an expert who doesn't need to be told most of the critical points that are left out. Your sample crontab suggests the use of perl ..... I wouldn't know a perl script if one attacked me in the night, so is that something critical to using crontabs as such or just something you've developed for a particular job ?? Somehow I've gotta figure out how to tell "mail" to send stuff like ppp.log to a given email address. Since it appears that this is not covered at all in the various man pages / handbook / Complete FreeBSD, where does one go for a straightforward explanation of all the steps / terminology / syntax / whatever else is required to get it to work ?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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