At Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:15:06 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > On 10/18/2009 11:13 AM Alan McKay wrote: > >> how would I go about that? The thing is: I'd like to know an orthodox > >> way to go about this. > > > > crontab -e > > > > and then just put in your entry > > > > * 7 * * * /your/command > > I think you meant: > > 0 7 * * * /your/command > > The asterisk will make the command run every minute during the seven > o'clock hour. The OP wanted his script to run at 7:00 > > Yes? No. The first field is the minutes (0), the second field is hours (7), then comes 'day of month' (*), month (*), 'day of week' (*). The script will run at 7:00AM, every day of every month on every day of the week (well the last is redundent...). man 5 crontab > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/