Eggheads: About crontab

[Hielke Hoeve]

On 04/12/05, Kobayashi <buraian at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> can anyone teach me how to set good crontab for eggdrop?

0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30,32,34,36,38,40,42,44,46,48,50,52,54,56,58
* * * * /home/user/eggdrop_run

Is my entry and it checks if the eggdrop is running every 2 minutes.
RTFM :D

>hielke at wofri> man crontab
Commands  are  executed  by  cron(8)  when  the minute, hour, and
month of year fields match the current time, and when at least one of
the two day
       fields (day of month, or day of week) match the current time
(see ``Note'' below).  cron(8) examines cron entries once every
minute.  The time  and
       date fields are:

              field          allowed values
              -----          --------------
              minute         0-59
              hour           0-23
              day of month   1-31
              month          1-12 (or names, see below)
              day of week    0-7 (0 or 7 is Sun, or use names)

       A field may be an asterisk (*), which always stands for ``first-last''.

Examples:
 # m h dom mon dow user    command
       42 6 * * *        root    run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily
       47 6 * * 7        root    run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly
       52 6 1 * *        root    run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly

Almost too easy...

Hielke