on Sun, Nov 10, 2002, Cameron Hutchison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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.
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