[rescue] Speaking of backups, scripting division

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Sunday, November 10, 2002 at 14:20:49 (-0500), Sheldon T. Hall wrote: ]
> Subject: [rescue] Speaking of backups, scripting division
>
> Is there an easy way to turn a crontab entry into something a little easier
> on the eyes?  Specifically, I want to turn the minute-hour-day part of a
> crontab line into a date.
> 
> For example, I have a line in root's crontab that reads
> 
> 59 02 * * 3 /usr/local/bin/backup_automatic

Why not just add a comment header on the table!?!?!?

# (note that on BSD there's an additional "user" field in the system
# crontab file)
#
#minute	hour	mday	month	wday	user	command
#
*/10	*	*	*	*	root	/usr/libexec/atrun


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