[101427] in RedHat Linux List
Re: cron jobs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Thu Nov 26 04:15:03 1998
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 04:10:35 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Jeff Williamson wrote:
> i want to set up some jobs to be run at certain times, but have no idea
> how to do this. the man pages for cron and crontab don't help much; can
> someone show me how to run fetchmail at 3:00 pm for example?
Run "crontab -e" as yourself, not root, and insert a line:
0 15 * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail >/dev/null 2>&1
The crontab manpage has all the detail you could need.
For a tutorial that's easier,
buy O'Reilly's book "Running Linux".
It's one of the famous animal books.
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Jan Carlson
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