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From: Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net>
To: Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au>
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Subject: Re: "bad day_of_the_month" (yes really !!!) cron questions
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I think I answered this question in the mail I just sent out a moment ago,
so I won't repeat it.

But I found where you can get the crontab info that you wanted.  Run the
following command.

man 5 crontab

There are different areas of man pages.  They are categorized.  One area
describes how to run a binary while another area describes file formats.
I think there are at least 8 areas, not sure what they are.

You can also run...

man 1 crontab

That is likely the page you were getting before.

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On Fri, 5 May 2000, Doug Young wrote:

> 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 <ppp.log" is a start,
> but how to tell mail about "control-d" ??
> 
> 
> 
> 
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