[Techtalk] Troubleshooting cron

Poppy sylph at cyber-dyne.com
Tue Jul 23 06:24:16 EST 2002


On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 20:12, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:

> 0 and 7 both mean Sunday. For future reference, the crontab(5) man page
> explains this, but you need to ensure you really do type 'man 5 crontab' or
> else crontab(1) pops up and seems less useful.
> 

Now that just seems silly... apart from crontab (5) being in the
references for crontab (1), how would I ever have known to look there?
*scratches her head*

Is there a reason for multiple man pages like this?

--Poppy

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