Unix questions - Making a "crontab" File on POWWEB?

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Making a "crontab" File on POWWEB?

Viva-Zapata

2004-03-15, 1:34 am

My virtual server is using an apache system on POWWEB.
I need to execute a CGI script, "speller.cgi", every hour. I assume
that I have to create a directory called "etc" and place my file in it
with the name "crontab". I assume that the directory "etc" resides
exactly where the "cgi-bin" directory resides.
What does the crontab file actually contain? Is it just something like

0 0 * * * /www/g/georgief/cgi-bin/speller.cgi

?

Thank you!

hermes

mgrd

2004-03-15, 11:35 am

Viva-Zapata wrote:
> What does the crontab file actually contain? Is it just something like
> 0 0 * * * /www/g/georgief/cgi-bin/speller.cgi

these are the crontab fields:

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
| | | | | |
* * * * * <cmd>

refer to section 5 rather than section 1 of the crontab man pages