On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 06:04:22PM +1000, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 05:56:45PM +1000, Doug Balmer uttered:
>
> > what is the format of the crontab file? i want to put something in there
> > but have no idea what the numbers mean.
>
> man 5 crontab
>
> ...
> For future reference, the number argument to man represents the "volume"
> of the Unix manual. 5 is for sysadminy stuff, from memory. So when you
> see this sorta thing:
...
> If you just to man crontab it'll only display the first man page, in
> this case crontab(1).
To make it easier to find a reference than typing
man 1 command
man 2 command
man 3 command
etc
there's a command called apropos. If you're looking for information on
cron, it'll return...
$apropos cron
/etc/anacrontab [anacrontab] (5) - configuration file for anacron
anacron (8) - runs commands periodically
cron (8) - daemon to execute scheduled commands (Vixie Cron)
cron [crond] (8) - daemon to execute scheduled commands (Vixie Cron)
crontab (1) - maintain crontab files for individual users (V3)
crontab (5) - tables for driving cron
Cheers
Paul Haddon
Technical Services Manager
Hartingdale Internet
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