Unix Tip: FORGET THE CRONTAB MAN

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Unix Tip 3186 - October 26, 2008

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FORGET THE CRONTAB MAN

For some reason many admins forget the field order of the
crontab file and alway reference the man pages over-and-over.
Make your life easy. Just put the field definitions in
your crontab file and comment (#) the lines out so the
crontab file ignores it.

#minute (0-59),
#      hour (0-23),
#             day of the month (1-31),
#                    month of the year (1-12),
#                           day of the week (0-6 with 0=Sunday).
#                                  commands
0       2       *       *       0,4     /etc/cron.d/logchecker