From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 19 22:57:43 2005 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 8089716A4CE for ; Thu, 19 May 2005 22:57:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from shiva.nextrials.com (shiva.nextrials.com [64.81.74.145]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2635743D64 for ; Thu, 19 May 2005 22:57:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dannyman@toldme.com) Received: from [192.168.1.102] (mito.sr.nextrials.com [192.168.1.102]) by shiva.nextrials.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C25653C282F; Thu, 19 May 2005 15:57:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <428D19E1.7010004@toldme.com> Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 15:57:37 -0700 From: Danny Howard User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050517) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Odhiambo Washington References: <20050519224912.GE23045@ns2.wananchi.com> In-Reply-To: <20050519224912.GE23045@ns2.wananchi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I run this cron job? 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: Thu, 19 May 2005 22:57:43 -0000 Odhiambo Washington wrote: >Perhaps trivial.... > >How do I run a cron job at the end of every month? > Type: man 5 crontab [...] # run at 2:15pm on the first of every month -- output mailed to paul 15 14 1 * * $HOME/bin/monthly [...] When you are ready to rock, type: crontab -e Good Luck. -danny -- http://dannyman.toldme.com/