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Wednesday, 7 September 2011

Crontab Entries

Crontab Entries

Below is the syntax of crontab entry

 Minute   Hour   Day of Month       Month          Day of Week        Command
 (0-59)     (0-23)       (1-31)       (1-12/Jan-Dec)  (0-6 or Sun-Sat)          ----


for Example
00 20 * * * date > /root/date

The above command will execute the date command and save output in /root/date on 20:00 P.M. everyday.

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