That gives a less terse explanation of crontab for anyone who needs one. I was not looking for help, but offering some to people who did not understand cron. I believe I was correct in how to use these shortcuts though I never have used them. Back in the day when I did such things I always used the 5 field syntax. On 5/15/07, Shawn Badger wrote: > > Does this help? > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crontab > > > > On 5/15/07, Dazed_75 wrote: > > For the noobs like me who were not exactly sure how to use this tidbit, > you > > can get a better description from "man 5 crontab". For example, you can > use > > "@yearly" in place of the first 5 fields (0 0 1 1 *) in a crontab entry > to > > make a more humanly readable entry. > > > > > > On 5/11/07, Shawn Badger wrote: > > > > > > Here are some useful crontab tricks that I found a while back on the > > > web and then someone posted them again. So I though I should pass them > > > on to the group. > > > > > > > > > Entry Description > > Equivalent To > > > @reboot Run once, at startup. None > > > @yearly Run once a year 0 0 1 1 * > > > @annually (same as @yearly) 0 0 1 1 * > > > @monthly Run once a month 0 0 1 * * > > > @weekly Run once a week 0 0 * * 0 > > > @daily Run once a day 0 0 * * * > > > @midnight (same as @daily) 0 0 * * * > > > @hourly Run once an hour 0 * * * * > > > > > > > > > I found them again at this site: > > > > > > http://blog.lxpages.com/2007/05/10/neat-crontab-tricks/ > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't > matter > > and those who matter don't mind. - Dr. Seuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr. Seuss