From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 30 20:32:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA12312 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 20:32:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA12294 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 20:31:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt1-93.HiWAAY.net [208.147.147.93]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.7/8.8.6) with ESMTP id WAA27268; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 22:31:53 -0500 (CDT) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.7/8.8.4) with ESMTP id WAA08649; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 22:31:51 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199710010331.WAA08649@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Jonathan E. Lyons" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: dkelly@hiwaay.net Subject: Re: Crontab Man Page?!?! In-reply-to: Message from "Jonathan E. Lyons" of "Tue, 30 Sep 1997 17:24:54 CDT." <3.0.3.32.19970930172454.00752f4c@midwest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 22:31:49 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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] -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.