Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 22:31:49 -0500 From: dkelly@hiwaay.net To: "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Crontab Man Page?!?! Message-ID: <199710010331.WAA08649@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net> of "Tue, 30 Sep 1997 17:24:54 CDT." <3.0.3.32.19970930172454.00752f4c@midwest.net>
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Jonathan E. Lyons asks
>
> 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?
Wouldn't it be nice if "crontab -e" automatically loaded a comment header
labeling fields? I notice there is some kind of automatic processing as
"crontab -l" and "crontab -e" outputs are different.
nospam: {174} crontab -l
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.737 installed on Sun Sep 28 20:25:00 1997)
# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.6.2.2 1997/09/16 07:02:14 charnier Exp $)
#
# BSD crontab allows variables like this:
PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin
#min hr day mo dow command
#
[snip]
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