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From: Dru <genisis@istar.ca>
To: Ben Compton <peabody007@deepspacenine.com>
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Subject: Re: Crontab Question
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Hi Ben,

You may find that the following article will help with the required
syntax:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/09/27/FreeBSD_Basics.html

HTH,

Dru


On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Ben Compton wrote:

> Quick question....could someone point me to a good site on the Internet with
> a tutorial of Crontabs?  I want to set up a cron job to cvsup my ports
> collection every night and I always seem to have a pain setting crontabs.  I
> need to know where to include this in the crontab file for root in /etc and
> if not where should I set it up?
> 
> Thanks in advance for the help
> 
> 
> 
> Ben Compton
> President
> Gamma Alpha Tau Chapter PBL
> Southwest Virginia Community College
> 
> "And in the end on dreams we will depend..."
>                                   -Van Halen        
> 
> 


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