[NTLUG:Discuss] Simple: cron (file) format to schedule a task to run at any time.

[James L. Skidmore]

actually in your example,

1 would be the minutes past the hour
2 would be the hour
3 would be day of the month
4 would be month of the year
5 would be the day of the week

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On Thu, 25 May 2000, Jay Urish wrote:

> At 05:55 PM 5/25/00 , you wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >I'd like to know the format for the crontab file to schedule a task to run at
> >any interval of time or days.
> >
> >I'm familiar with the one comes with SCO UNIX but I'm not sure about LINUX
> >(RH6.0)?
> 
> Here is roots crontab on my box..
> 
> #Run the logwatcher everyday at 22:00
> 0 22 * * *              /usr/sbin/logwatch
> 0 12 * * 1-5    /root/backup.daily #This is the daily backup
> 0 12 * * 6              /root/backup.full #this is the full backup
> 
> 
> 1 2 3 4 5
> 
> 1. is something
> 2. is the hour
> 3. is the minuet
> 4. is something
> 5 is the day where 1=monday 2=tuesday etc..
> 
> Jay Urish
> Network Engineer - Dallas Wide Area Networking L.L.C
> www.dalwan.net
> 
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