Hi. Thanks for the info. -- A message from the system administrator: "I've upped my priority, now up yours!" On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Ralph W. Reid wrote: > Alex Snow staggered into view and mumbled: > > > >Hi All. > >Does anyone know the syntax of the crontab file? I cant seem to find it. > >what I'm aiming to do is run a job every 15 mins or so but I cant seem to > >find the syntax and what all the fields are. > > Have you considered using `at' instead of editing that file manually? > For what you want to do, the `at' command line would look something > like this: > > at now + 15 minutes > > You can then enter a list of commands you would like to run, and then > terminate the list with a CTRL-D (end of file character) to get > things started. You might also want to redirect any output from the > commands to keep from getting email every 15 minutes if the list ends > with `at now + 15 minutes'. See the man page for `at' for more > details. I hope this helps. > > Have a _great_ day! > > -- > Ralph. N6BNO. Wisdom comes from central processing, not from I/O. > rreid at sunset.net http://personalweb.sunset.net/~rreid > Opinions herein are either mine or they are flame bait. > SLOPE = (y2 - y1) / (x2 - x1) > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
