From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 3 19:18:48 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4438037B401 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2003 19:18:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cfcl.com (cpe-24-221-172-174.ca.sprintbbd.net [24.221.172.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A36E84401E for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2003 19:18:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rdm@cfcl.com) Received: from [192.168.254.205] ([192.168.254.205]) by cfcl.com (8.12.6/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h642KLj4066453 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2003 19:20:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rdm@cfcl.com) Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20030704013148.GE24527@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20030703212325.GA5665@mail.it.ca> <20030704013148.GE24527@dan.emsphone.com> X-Mailer: Eudora for Macintosh! Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 19:12:18 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Rich Morin Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Subject: Re: format of /etc/crontab? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 02:18:48 -0000 At 8:31 PM -0500 7/3/03, Dan Nelson wrote: >It already does, a couple paragraphs above the stuff you quoted: > > The format of a cron command is very much the V7 standard, with a number > of upward-compatible extensions. Each line has five time and date > fields, followed by a user name (with optional ``:'' and > ``/'' suffixes) if this is the system crontab file, followed > by a command. Thanks for pointing this out. I still think the information could do with being a bit less hidden... -r -- email: rdm@cfcl.com; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm - my home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series