From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 4 19:39:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gargoyle.apana.org.au (brisba6.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.66.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D43937B6C5 for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 19:39:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by gargoyle.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA10810 for ; Fri, 5 May 2000 12:39:21 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from roadrunner.apana.org.au(203.3.126.132), claiming to be "ROADRUNNER" via SMTP by gargoyle.apana.org.au, id smtpdN10801; Fri May 5 12:38:55 2000 Message-ID: <01d701bfb63b$6bb36d70$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> From: "Doug Young" To: References: Subject: Re: "bad day_of_the_month" (yes really !!!) cron questions Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 12:40:19 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.5600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It appears that for reasons I don't understand its not possible / practical to use the crontab command or any variation thereof to setup what should be a very simple job, however I can't imagine why it isn't feasible to achieve the result I want by adding an entry in "etc/crontab". OK, now since "man cron" & "man crontab" don't provide any useful information on this issue, I need to figure out exactly what to tell "/etc/crontab". I figure something like "mail blah@somewhere.com