from man pages:

A crontab file consists of lines of six fields each. The
fields are separated by spaces or tabs. The first five are
integer patterns that specify the following:

minute (0-59),
hour (0-23),
day of the month (1-31),
month of the year (1-12),
day of the week (0-6 with 0=Sunday).


-----Original Message-----
From: Poole David
[mailto:oracledba-ezmlmshield-x60212227.[Email address protected]
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 1:41 PM
To: LazyDBA Discussion
Subject: cronjob


A quick question does the following mean Monday to Friday 7am to 6pm?

00 7-18 * * 1-5 /export/home/oracle/scripts/dbalert >/dev/null 2>1



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