Crontab tricks

[Shawn Badger]

Does this help?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crontab



On 5/15/07, Dazed_75 <lthielster at 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 at 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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