on Sun, Nov 10, 2002, Cameron Hutchison (camh+dl@xdna.net) wrote: > Once upon a time W.D.McKinney said... > > Hi Chris, > > > > Thanks. man crontab doesn't tell me what the syntax is for a "every 5 > > minute" > > job though, and that's what I need. Any other ideas ? > > man 5 crontab > > This will tell you about the crontab file format. > > man crontab The GNU/Linux manual is divided into sections. 'man man' lists these: 1 Executable programs or shell commands 2 System calls (functions provided by the kernel) 3 Library calls (functions within system libraries) 4 Special files (usually found in /dev) 5 File formats and conventions eg /etc/passwd 6 Games 7 Macro packages and conventions eg man(7), groff(7). 8 System administration commands (usually only for root) 9 Kernel routines [Non standard] Note that file formats are in section 5. You'll also find a reference to section crontab(5) at the end of crontab(1). To see a page for a particular section: $ man <section> <page> E.g.: $ man 5 crontab Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? TWikIWeThey: An experiment in collective intelligence. Stupidity. Whatever. http://twiki.iwethey.org/
Attachment:
pgpgt_LhRyuzX.pgp
Description: PGP signature