[CentOS] Scheduling tasks using cron...

Mon Jan 9 14:01:22 UTC 2006
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 23:51, Jose Alburquerque wrote:
> Hi all.  Can anyone help me with scheduling tasks?  I'm running 
> Centos4.2 (updated via yum starting from 4.0).  I know I have vixie-cron 
> and anacron packages installed (came like that, from first install, I 
> guess).  I read the crontab syntax man page (man 5 crontab) and I made 
> an entry as a normal user (using crontab -e) that looks like the following:
> 
> 30 0 9 1 1 /bin/ls -F /home/jose > /home/jose/home-listing.txt

That looks right for today, but normally you would only
specify one or the other of the day/month or day-of-week
items and use * for the others.

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  Les Mikesell
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