Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:48:32 -0500 From: "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Crontab Man Page?!?! Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19970930194832.00717044@midwest.net> In-Reply-To: <19971001085013.22821@lemis.com> References: <3.0.3.32.19970930172454.00752f4c@midwest.net> <3.0.3.32.19970930172454.00752f4c@midwest.net>
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AHhh..I see the light, I was doing man crontab 5 ... :)
At 08:50 AM 10/1/97 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
>On Tue, Sep 30, 1997 at 05:24:54PM -0500, Jonathan E. Lyons wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Today I was installing a http analyzer and I realized that I had forgotten
>> the format for contab entires. I checked man crontab 1 & 8 and cron itself,
>> I could've sworn this info was there..Anyway can someone please post the
>> format ..ie is it minute hour day month year? I seem to remember using
>> something like
>>
>> 15 * * * /usr/bin/whatever
>>
>> to execute that command every 15 minutes?
>
>man 5 crontab
>
>Section 5 is file formats, so that's where it belongs.
>
>You need another * in your entry (for weekday):
>
>15 * * * * /usr/bin/whatever
>
>This will execute every hour at 15 minutes past the hour. To do it
>every 15 minutes, do:
>
>0,15,30,45 * * * * /usr/bin/whatever
>
>Greg
>
>
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