Ok, it's not the first
crontab I've ever written. This is my crontab template that I just created for mysellf because even though I've been using cron since the late 80s, I still keep forgetting which side is minutes. How sad is that?!?I copied the nice format from Wikipedia's
cron page.The first line (the only line that isn't a comment, and therefore an actual
crontab entry) is my initial test to make sure cron is working for the account. * * * * * echo hi >/tmp/a.hi # * * * * * command to execute # _ _ _ _ _ # | | | | | # | | | | | # | | | | +---day of week (0 - 6) # | | | +--------month (1 - 12) # | | +-------------day of month (1 - 31) # | +------------------hour (0 - 23) # +-------------------------min (0 - 59)
