Making an Entry to Crontab

Crontab may be modified by the command crontab -e. Don't run crontab without command line arguments because that cancels all the commands currently scheduled by crontab.

Crontab file is of the following format:

        minute hour date month weekday command

For example, to run httpd_wais_update every Monday morning at 5:10, you would make an entry:

        10 5 * * 1 /usr/local/bin/httpd_wais_update 
* means that those fields are not relevant (in our example: "no matter what date and month it is, if it is Monday 5:10am, run this"). The days go from Sunday (0) to Saturday (6). See crontab(1) and crontab(5) for more details.

AL 6 April 1994