David Scheidt wrote: > 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.
Also note - in your scripts, have absoulte paths. IE: if you need to cat the /var/log/auth.log /bin/cat /var/log/auth.log -- Best regards, Chris If muprhy's law can go wrong, it will. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
