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From: "John Brooks" <john@day-light.com>
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	"'Joseph E. Maxwell'" <jemaxwell@jaymax.com>
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Subject: RE: Cron jobs setup
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you probably already know this, but just in case...

the command to edit a crontab is:

  crontab -u whoser -e

(assuming that your user is named "whoser")

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John Brooks
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-database@freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-database@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Andy Harrison
> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 8:08 AM
> To: Joseph E. Maxwell
> Cc: freebsd-database@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Cron jobs setup
> 
> 
> On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 22:12:09 -0800, Joseph E. Maxwell
> <jemaxwell@jaymax.com> wrote:
> > I am setting up a cron job to run a shell script at 1 hr 
> interval and to
> > have the output of the script sent to a user. I have this 
> in the cron
> > file inserted by crontab
> > 
> >     cat /var/cron/tabs/whoser
> > 
> >         # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
> >         # (cron_reg installed on Fri Dec 24 18:13:01 2004)
> >         # (Cron version -- $FreeBSD:
> >         src/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.c,v 1.12.2.4 2001/06/16
> >         03:18:37 peter Exp $)
> >         0       1       *       *       *
> >         
> /blah/blah/blah/blah/blah/blah/blah/blah/blah/blah/pam2deb.shl
> >         MAILTO=user
> 
> 
> Reread the crontab manpage.  0 1 * * * doesn't mean once per hour, it
> means that it will run every day at 1AM.  If you want once per hour, I
> believe you can do */60 * * * *
> 
> -- 
> Andy Harrison
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