Re: hosers-talk: cron

[Jeff Schroeder <jeffs@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

crontab -e should be the command you are looking for.  That will allow you 
to edit your crontab file.  I sent a message about this yesterday, but it 
seems to have gotten lost...

jeff

At 12:56 PM 7/22/2001, you wrote:
> Quoth Jon Stewart:
> >
> > Do we have permission to use cron? If so, how does one edit one's crontab
> > file? The man pages for cron and crontab had nothing, and I couldn't find
> > an example file.
> >
> >
> > Jon
>
> Sure, so long as it's not too processor intensive. If you make it run 
> 'find /  foo' once a minute chances are I'll kill it.
>
> The man page you likely saw for crontab was crontab(1), which is for the 
> crontab command that you use to edit your crontab. The one where you'd 
> find an example is crontab(5), which describes the crontab file syntax. 
> The latter is referenced at the bottom of the former under the SEE ALSO 
> section.
>
> To get man pages specifically by section (necessary if there is more than 
> one with the same name and the default one isn't the one you want), you 
> need to precede the desired page name with the section number. So:
>
> % man 5 crontab
>
> This man page describes the crontab syntax very thoroughly and has a good 
> example.
>
> --
> J.