From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 30 17:51:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA04821 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 17:51:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cplkagan.globaleyes.net ([209.60.64.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA04815 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 17:51:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parrothd.globaleys.net (parrothd [192.0.0.29]) by cplkagan.globaleyes.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA20761; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 15:55:24 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19970930194832.00717044@midwest.net> X-Sender: parrothd@midwest.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Demo Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:48:32 -0500 To: Greg Lehey From: "Jonathan E. Lyons" Subject: Re: Crontab Man Page?!?! Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19971001085013.22821@lemis.com> References: <3.0.3.32.19970930172454.00752f4c@midwest.net> <3.0.3.32.19970930172454.00752f4c@midwest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 > > ..-.. ..-.. Jonathan E. Lyons __ /-___-\ __ __ / \ __ parrothd@midwest.net (__\/___ ___\/__) (__\//-oO--\\/__) 87 VFR700FII | \__|__/ | (/ _---_ \) Southern Illinois University ( ___ ) \/__|__\/ School of Ag. LAN Admin. ( / \ ) | [VFR] | http://cplkagan.globaleyes.net/ \ |.-.| / \ .---.{O) \ || || / \|///|| | '\| |/' |\|\|{_} | | |///|// '_' |///| '---'