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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com