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Re: CRON
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Re: CRON


  • Subject: Re: CRON
  • From: Andrew Oliver <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 11:04:21 -0800

cron is a venerable product that's been around a long time. I'm not
surprised the man page lists an old date, but that doesn't mean its
outdated.

As for the statement 'man crontab(5)', the (5) indicates the man page level
to reference. To access the page type:

 man 5 crontab

Andrew
;)

On 11/24/04 10:45 AM, "Robert Poland" <email@hidden> wrote:

>> At 21:38 -0700 11/23/04, Robert Poland wrote:
>>> I seem to be fighting a losing battle with CRON.
>>> Is there any CURRENT information that works?
>>
>> In terminal or a BBEdit worksheet:
>>
>> man cron
>> man crontab
>
> The above commands give me a file that is eleven years old. It also
> tells me to see also man crontab(5)
> which gives error;
> -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
>
> I think the battle is almost lost.

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