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Re: NEWBIE: cron



on Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 09:38:45AM +0100, Sebastiaan (sebas@sacred-key.org) wrote:
> Hi,
> I am new to cron tasks and I can not find out how I can run a task every
> minute. I have now this line in /etc/crontab:
> # m h dom mon dow user	command
> 1 0 * * * 	root	date >> /home/dating
> 
> This should export the date every minute to /home/dating, but it does not
> seem to work.

It's going to write date to /home/dating at 1 minute after midnight.

To run a command once a minute:

    * * * * * 	user	command 

> And what do dom, mon  and dow mean? I guess 'do monthly' and 'do weekly',
> but the middle one does not make sense to me.

    $ man 5 crontab

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