Cron???

yenonn · 04-29-2003, 04:16 AM

Dear all,

What is cron? I want to learn cron, are there any url
got this related tutorial to show me a step-by-step
of using cron?
pls revert !!!!! thanks!

Cheers,
yenonn

acid_kewpie · 04-29-2003, 04:30 AM

this really is all in cron's manpage you know...

Ztyx · 04-29-2003, 04:40 AM

# man cron

MasterC · 04-29-2003, 09:42 AM

I don't know if it's distro specific, but check man crontab. I just figured out how to use this the other day, works great.

Format is:
Minute Hour Date Month DayOFWeek Application

If any part isn't used replace it with a *

Example:
To have ls execute at 755 PM on April 30'th:
55 19 30 apr * ls

And if you don't send it to a log somewhere, you will get an email regarding the execution of "ls"

Cool

benjaminrtz · 04-29-2003, 12:05 PM

First Check if the crond (cron daemon) is running