From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 9 05:52:20 2003 Return-Path: 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 9A03437B401 for ; Fri, 9 May 2003 05:52:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [213.165.65.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8771443F75 for ; Fri, 9 May 2003 05:52:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crnholio@gmx.ch) Received: (qmail 1445 invoked by uid 65534); 9 May 2003 12:51:59 -0000 Received: from cable-rhf1-061.teleport.ch (HELO pimp.intern-lan) (157.161.32.61) by mail.gmx.net (mp005-rz3) with SMTP; 09 May 2003 14:51:59 +0200 Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 14:51:59 +0200 From: crnholio To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20030509145159.2d620aad.crnholio@gmx.ch> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.8) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: crontab question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 12:52:21 -0000 hi list, i have a simple question concerning crontab. i would like to execute a program every day at 0:45 o'clock and kill it at 6:00. this is the entry i made in /etc/crontab: 45 0 * * * crnholio program 0 6 * * * crnholio killall -9 program well, it doesn't work and i guess i haven't understood how to enter the exact time into the file. could somebody please enlighten me? :) thanks in advance, crnholio