On 26-Feb-99 Deirdre Saoirse wrote:
> As this is something almost all newbies might find helpful, I've cc'ed it
> back to the list.
>
> No problem. you don't want man crontab -- you want man 5 crontab. (Sad
> that I know this off the top of my head). One of the tricks to know about
> man is that there's often more than one man page for a command. You can
> find extra man pages by the following (or several other) methods:
>
> locate crontab | grep man
>
> In this case, you'll see there's one in man1 (the default man) and in man5
> (which is invoked by man 5).
>
> First, you never edit /etc/crontab directly. Use crontab -e (for
> edit) instead.
Really? I did not know I could edit crontab with that command, only user
crontabs.
Debian also has "Anacron", but I don't know what the differences are, except
that I believe Anacron will execute commands that were not executed because
the machine was off.
--
Andrew
