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Re: [PLUG] crontab entry not working
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Wow; thanks for the much needed lesson!! Maybe I won't be asking any
more questions on this forum !!
On 18 Apr 2001 16:45:26 -0400, Mental wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 03:17:01PM -0400, Rupert Heesom wrote:
> > Where can I find documentation on doing crontab stuff? I looked at the
> > man & info pages for "crontab", but they just talked about how to
> > execute the "crontab" command.
>
> Man pages are splitup (sometimes) into several categorys.
> The man manpage documents it as:
> The table below shows the section numbers of the manual
> followed by the types of pages they contain.
>
> 1 Executable programs or shell commands
> 2 System calls (functions provided by the kernel)
> 3 Library calls (functions within system libraries)
> 4 Special files (usually found in /dev)
> 5 File formats and conventions eg /etc/passwd
> 6 Games
> 7 Macro packages and conventions eg man(7), groff(7).
> 8 System administration commands (usually only for root)
> 9 Kernel routines [Non standard]
>
>
> The "See Also" section of crontab has tis to say:
> SEE ALSO
> crontab(5), cron(8)
>
>
> If you "man 5 crontab" you'll get the page where I previously quoted my
> information from.
>
> Now you know how, where and why I knew to look there.
>
--
regs
rupert
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