On December 14, 2003 09:52 am, Michael Sullivan wrote: > Is there a guide somewhere that will tell me column headings for > crontab? The row for cron.daily says: > > 02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily > > but there are no column headings to tell me what each of those columns > means. I'll start leaving the computer on at night anyway.... > > -Michael Sullivan- There are a few cron man pages, but "man 5 crontab" is what you want to look at. For the system crons (cron.hourly, cron.daily etc) looks slightly different because it uses runparts as the command and the directory as the arg. > 02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily says that at 2 minutes after 4am everyday, via runparts, every script in /etc/cron.daily should be executed (in order). -- Pete Nesbitt, rhce -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
