re: NEWBIE: cron

[minh-quang.yvonet@altadis.com]

Try
man 5 crontab

fields are:

minute
hour
day-of-month
month
day-of-week
user
command

The line you used appends the date in /home/dating everyday at 00:01

If you want it to run every minute, you can try

*/1 * * * * root date >> /home/dating






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
mseem 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.





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