Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 18:09:16 -0700 From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@mooseriver.com> To: Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "bad day_of_the_month" (yes really !!!) cron questions Message-ID: <20000504180916.A8833@mooseriver.com> In-Reply-To: <018e01bfb62c$58481b00$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER>; from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au on Fri, May 05, 2000 at 10:51:23AM %2B1000 References: <018e01bfb62c$58481b00$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER>
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On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 10:51:23AM +1000, Doug Young wrote:
> I'd like to have remote systems email a copy of various logs at to me at
> sheduled times, & I understand that "cron" is supposed to be capable of
> doing this. What I don't understand is exactly how to go about it.
>
> I followed the instructions in Complete FreeBSD, and even though there's a
> file "/usr/bin/crontab", when I run "crontab -l" I get a message "no crontab
> for root"
> Now this sounds weird, because I understood from "man cron" & "man crontab"
> that a bunch of processes are controlled from the root cron, so what gives
> here ??
>
> I then tried running "crontab crontab", but that just told me
> "crontab":0: bad day_of_month
> crontab: errors in crontab file, can't install
sigh... Now would be a good time to go back and read the man pages for
cron, and crontab. It is important to read _ALL_ the words not every
third. Had you read the man page for contab you would have found that
crontab -l lists the contents of the crontab file for a user and crontab -e
allows you to edit a crontab file. Try the following commands
man cron
man crontab
man 5 crontab
The last command tells man that you want to see the man page for crontab
from section 5 of the man pages. That is what the notation "crontab(5)"
means.
*NOTE to self* write a short how-to explaining how the man page system
works. This appears to be hidden knowledge.
Josef
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