Re: NEWBIE: cron

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

  it would be ran everytime minute is one and hour is zero (= 0:01 AM).

  to run something EVERY minute you need something like this:

  0-59 * * * root date >> /home/dating

	erik

Sebastiaan 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.
> 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.
> 
> Thanks,
> Sebastiaan
> 
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