From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 21 9:44:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smarthost.redmond.corp.microsoft.com (smarthost.microsoft.com [131.107.3.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E617737B407 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:44:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trevin@mail.com) Received: from trevin ([157.56.129.168]) by smarthost.redmond.corp.microsoft.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.2966); Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:44:02 -0700 From: "Trevin Chow" To: Subject: crontab entry columns Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:44:02 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_003D_01C0FA36.B431BB70" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Jun 2001 16:44:03.0044 (UTC) FILETIME=[60E80240:01C0FA71] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_003D_01C0FA36.B431BB70 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Quick question: What do the columns in a crontab entry represent? Specifically, I'm looking at the 3rd column. The comment in my crontab file is: #min hour mday month wday command What is "mday" and "wday"? ------=_NextPart_000_003D_01C0FA36.B431BB70 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Quick question:

 

What do the columns in a crontab entry = represent? Specifically, I’m looking at the 3rd column.  The comment in my crontab file = is:

 

#min    hour    = mday    month   wday    = command

 

What is “mday” and = “wday”?

 

 

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