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Re: Illegal characters in cron



On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 06:11:23AM +0800, csj wrote:
| On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:05:46 -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
| > 
| > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 05:46:59AM +0800, csj wrote:
| 
| > | I'm having trouble getting the following to work in my
| > | crontab:

| > The key is this snippet from crontab(5) :

| Thanks to you and Ken.  Pretty obvious I should have RTFMed.  But
| my problem is "crontab(1)".  I've always wondered what those
| parenthetical man numbers(N) mean.  Time to "man man";-).

The number indicates the section of the manual to look in.  So to read
crontab(5) run

    $ man 5 crontab

(man(1) contains a listing of the sections and what sorts of things
are found in each section)

-D

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