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Old September 4th, 2002, 08:01 AM
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cron wih * * * * * a task, what is that mean?

if crontab -e

cron wih * * * * * a task, what is that mean?
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wish to use AT 89c51 single chip computer to do remote sensing and send the data back from woods to office via nokie 3330 and internet. HOW?
first I must revise C program thro' example, what's next?

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man 5 crontab will help you out immensley

In short, each * indicates a certain time frame.
Those fields represent:

minute 0-59
hour 0-23
day of month 1-31
month 1-12
day of week 0-7

So,

0 * * * * /bin/script would run /bin/script every hour on the hour

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