How do I set up cron? A#7.4: There are man pages for this that were distributed with the v2.0.
GNO update, but they don’t quite match the implementation provided with the Multi-user 2.0 package. To activate cron, you must uncomment its entry in the /etc/inittab file. See the init(8) man page for the format of this file. Cron is controlled through the /etc/crontab file. Unlike its UNIX counterparts, the GNO cron does not support setting of environment variables in the crontab file. These would be lines of the form: SHELL=/bin/sh MAILTO=gdr Any line which begins with a hash (#) character is considered to be a comment and is ignored. All other lines in this file are expected to have five space- delimited date/time fields, followed by a user name field, followed by a command. The first five fields are: minute (0-59) hour (0-23) day of month (1-31) month (0-11) day of week (0-6) (appears to be ignored) Multiple values may be specified either separated by commas, or as a range separated with a hyphen. Following the five date/time fields is a username field.
