From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 17 09:14:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA10660 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 09:14:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freenet.hamilton.on.ca (main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA10651 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 09:14:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.66]) by freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA06789; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 12:14:08 -0400 Received: (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA12177; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 12:15:39 -0400 Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 12:15:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek To: "Brett L. Nordby" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question In-Reply-To: <199606171523.KAA32711@bubba.webinnovators.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Brett L. Nordby wrote: > Hi! > > Sorry to bother you with a question, but I need help. Could > you please point me to documentation showing me how to schedule a cron > job? I'm afraid I lost my FreeBSD book, and the man pages say nothing of > the format. `man 5 crontab' explains it much better than I ever could! :) The stuff currently scheduled for cron is kept in /etc/crontab (whose file-format is described by the above manpage). Also have a look at `man 1 at', which may be able to do what you want, too. (Note that `/usr/libexec/atrun' entry in /etc/crontab). -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk