[plug] cron jobs

[James Bromberger]

On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 12:40:00AM +0800, Jason :) wrote:
> Simple question (I hope...)
> 
> How would i go about setting up cron to run a set of commands every hour
> (eg. in a /etc/cron.hourly directory)? I assume I need to put something in
> crontab, but I have no idea what.
> 
> I'm using Debian 2.2 and whatever cron comes standard with that.

As the user you want it to run as (yourself, root?), do a:
	crontab -e

And add the fields:
0 * * * * /usr/local/bin/mycommand arg1 arg2 ... argN


See `man 5 crontab`. Fields are min, hr, day of month, month, day of week, command, argument(s).

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