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 <badger.shawn@gmail.com> wrote:
Does this help?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crontab
On 5/15/07, Dazed_75 <lthielster@gmail.com> 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 <badger.shawn@gmail.com> 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/
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