Try man 5 crontab
fields are: minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week user command The line you used appends the date in /home/dating everyday at 00:01 If you want it to run every minute, you can try */1 * * * * root date >> /home/dating Hi, I am new to cron tasks and I can not find out how I can run a task every minute. I have now this line in /etc/crontab: # m h dom mon dow user command 1 0 * * * root date >> /home/dating This should export the date every minute to /home/dating, but it does not mseem to work. And what do dom, mon and dow mean? I guess 'do monthly' and 'do weekly', but the middle one does not make sense to me. _________________________________________________________________ "This e-mail is intended for the exclusive use of the individual or entity named above and may constitute information that is priviledged or confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure . Dissemination , distribution , forwarding or copying of this e-mail by anyone other than the intended recipient is prohibited . If you have received this e-mail in error , please notify us and completly delete or destroy any and all electronic or other copies of the original message" _________________________________________________________________
