Re: cron, crontab, etc. [update]

1999-07-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: cron, crontab, etc. [CORRECTION] Date: Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 04:22:03PM -0400 In reply to:Wayne Topa Quoting Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Subject: Re: cron, crontab, etc. [CORRECTION] > Date: Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 02:49:10PM -0300 >

Re: cron, crontab, etc. [CORRECTION]

1999-07-22 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: cron, crontab, etc. [CORRECTION] Date: Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 02:49:10PM -0300 In reply to:Daniel Ruoso Quoting Daniel Ruoso([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > actually the most eficient will be: > > 0 */6 * * * etc... > > Daniel Ruoso You right, of

Re: cron, crontab, etc. [CORRECTION]

1999-07-22 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Wayne Topa wrote: > > Subject: Re: cron, crontab, etc. > Date: Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 10:12:39AM -0400 > > In reply to:Wayne Topa > > Quoting Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > Subject: cron, crontab, etc. > > Date: Tue, Jul

Re: cron, crontab, etc. [CORRECTION]

1999-07-21 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: cron, crontab, etc. Date: Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 10:12:39AM -0400 In reply to:Wayne Topa Quoting Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Subject: cron, crontab, etc. > Date: Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 01:07:09PM +0100 > > In reply to:Patrick Ki

Re: cron, crontab, etc.

1999-07-20 Thread Brad
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > add to /etc/crontab: What are the advantages of adding to /etc/crontab as opposed to /etc/cron.d? Besides that cron.d is Debian specific ("man 8 cron" tells this) of course ;) Just curious...

Re: cron, crontab, etc.

1999-07-20 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: cron, crontab, etc. Date: Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 01:07:09PM +0100 In reply to:Patrick Kirk Quoting Patrick Kirk([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi all, > > I want to schedule a command to run updatebd every 6 hours. The man pages > for cron and crontab don't have any useful info o

Re: cron, crontab, etc.

1999-07-20 Thread Patrick Kirk
Sorry to appear dense but I find that man page incomprehensible. Thanks for decyphering it! Patrick - Original Message - [snip] > >From `Manual page crontab(5)' line 110: > >Step values can be used in conjunction with ranges. Fol­ >lowing a range with ``/'' specifies ski

Re: cron, crontab, etc.

1999-07-20 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 01:07:09PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to schedule a command to run updatebd every 6 hours. The man pages > for cron and crontab don't have any useful info on how. > > How do I do this? Hi, ??? >From `Manual page crontab(5)' line 110: Step v

Re: cron, crontab, etc.

1999-07-20 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi folks, On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 01:07:09PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > I want to schedule a command to run updatebd every 6 hours. The man pages > for cron and crontab don't have any useful info on how. > How do I do this? Add the following line to your crontab (use the crontab -e command):