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Old 05-19-2012, 01:27 PM   #1
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crontab config help


A guy at work ran a command and something like this came up (I toko this from the wiki page) and then he went on his merry wat and created the cron.

i checked the man page - do not see a thing like it

Code:
*    *    *    *    *  command to be executed
┬    ┬    ┬    ┬    ┬
│    │    │    │    │
│    │    │    │    │
│    │    │    │    └───── day of week (0 - 6) (0 is Sunday, or use names)
│    │    │    └────────── month (1 - 12)
│    │    └─────────────── day of month (1 - 31)
│    └──────────────────── hour (0 - 23)
└───────────────────────── min (0 - 59)
 
Old 05-19-2012, 02:17 PM   #2
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what is the question? what man page have you checked? If you want to edit crontab you need to check the man page of crontab. (Actually it is really simple, the usual way is: crontab -e, but it depends on your distro also)
 
Old 05-20-2012, 08:49 PM   #3
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You can find that same info here http://www.adminschoice.com/crontab-quick-reference and more on howto cron.
Some(!) cron implementations actually include that diagram at the top of the system crontab file(s).
Try
Code:
crontab -l
as root (that's a lowercase L)
 
Old 05-21-2012, 04:39 AM   #4
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i checked the man page - do not see a thing like it
Exactly, you will not find that in man page. That is just to make folks understand more easily.
 
Old 05-21-2012, 01:23 PM   #5
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this guy are work typed in crontab 'something' and got that diagram in the shell prompt.
Then he typed in the crontab following the aformentioned chart.

I must be some kind of easter egg in this system of ubuntu cron - because I saw him do it.
 
  


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