Thanks, Ray:
Odd, here is a segment of (*my*) 'man crontab' showing the example lines. Every example has 'date' as the 6th field. :-|
Yes. But the proposed entry you asked us about originally --
5 6 7 * date /usr/local/src/ez/dyndns.conf
-- had "date" as the fifth field, NOT the sixth field. That is wrong. You can't just skip a field; you need (in this case) the * entry for it.
"date" is a standard Unix/Linux command, and the samples you referred to, which have it in the sixth field, simply use it as the name of the program to run ... just as you suspected.
[rest deleted](*my* = slackware-8.0, kernel-2.2.19, firewall, ip-masq) Maybe the examples show how to run the 'date' program?
# MIN HOUR DAY MONTH DAYOFWEEK COMMAND # at 6:10 a.m. every day 10 6 * * * date
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