On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 10:08:15AM +0530, Anirban Adhikary wrote: > Hi guys. This is Anirban. I have a doubt on crontab.The question is > > how to write a crontabwhich takes the back-up at 11:59 pm daily and every > tuesday of the week > Hope i will receive the answer soon.
I don't quite understand what you want. The format of a line in a crontab file is as follows. There are five columns that specify the time to run the job at: Minutes Hours Day of Month Month Day of week 59 23 * * * /path/to/script Would run /path/to/script every day at 11:59 pm. If what you want to do is only run it on tuesday, 59 23 * * 2 /path/to/script The utility to install crontabs is called crontab. The format of entries is defined in the crontab(5) man page. 'man 5 crontab' will allow you to read that. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
