Unix Tip: FORGET THE CRONTAB MAN

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Unix Tip 3186 - October 27, 2009

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FORGET THE CRONTAB MAN

For some reason many admins forget the field order of the crontab file and alway reference the man pages over-and-over. Make your life easy. Just put the field definitions in your crontab file and comment (#) the lines out so the crontab file ignores it.

#minute (0-59),
#| hour (0-23),
#| | day of the month (1-31),
#| | | month of the year (1-12),
#| | | | day of the week (0-6 with 0=Sunday).
#| | | | | commands
0 2 * * 0,4 /etc/cron.d/logchecker

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