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Old February 12th, 2002, 08:52 PM
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Crontab, correct syntax from command line help
from a telnet cmd prompt what is the correct syntax for setting up a crontab?

I want it to run at 23:59 everyday,everymonth,everyday of the week.

crontab -e 59 23 1-31 1-12 0-6 * wget http://www.mydomain.com/update.php


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Old February 12th, 2002, 08:57 PM
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59 23 * * * /full/path/to/wget http://www.domain.com/update.php 2>&1 > /dev/null

Above is BSD's format so RTFM for yours.
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I should have stated I have linux.

would you know the linux format?

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Old February 12th, 2002, 09:02 PM
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Can you man 5 crontab? If not, can you search google?
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