HPUX crontab[1]

 crontab(1)                                                       crontab(1)





 NAME
      crontab - user crontab file

 SYNOPSIS
      crontab [file]
      crontab -r
      crontab -l

 DESCRIPTION
      crontab copies the specified file, or standard input if no file is
      specified, into a directory that holds all users' crontab files (see
      cron(1M)).  The -r option removes a user's crontab from the crontab
      directory.  crontab -l lists the crontab file for the invoking user.

      Users are permitted to use crontab if their names appear in the file
      /usr/lib/cron/cron.allow.  If that file does not exist, the file
      /usr/lib/cron/cron.deny is checked to determine if the user should be
      denied access to crontab.  If neither file exists, only root is
      allowed to submit a job.  If only cron.deny exists and is empty,
      global usage is permitted.  The allow/deny files consist of one user
      name per line.

      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).

      Each of these patterns can be either an asterisk (meaning all legal
      values), or a list of elements separated by commas.  An element is
      either a number, or two numbers separated by a hyphen (meaning an
      inclusive range).  Note that the specification of days can be made by
      two fields (day of the month and day of the week).  If both are
      specified as a list of elements, both are adhered to.  For example, 0
      0 1,15 * 1 runs a command on the first and fifteenth of each month, as
      well as on every Monday.  To specify days by only one field, the other
      field should be set to * (for example, 0 0 * * 1 runs a command only
      on Mondays).

      The sixth field of a line in a crontab file is a string that is
      executed by the shell at the specified times.  A percent character in
      this field (unless escaped by \) is translated to a new-line
      character.  Only the first line (up to a % or end of line) of the
      command field is executed by the shell.  The other lines are made
      available to the command as standard input.





 Hewlett-Packard Company            - 1 -     HP-UX Release 9.0: August 1992






 crontab(1)                                                       crontab(1)





      The shell is invoked from your $HOME directory with an initial
      argument of sh.  Users who desire to have their .profile executed must
      explicitly do so in the crontab file.  cron supplies a default
      environment for every shell, defining HOME, LOGNAME, SHELL=/bin/sh,
      and PATH=:/bin:/usr/bin.

 EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
    International Code Set Support
      Single-byte character code sets are supported.

 WARNINGS
      Be sure to redirect the standard output and standard error from
      commands.  If this is not done, any generated output or errors are
      mailed to the user.

 FILES
      /usr/lib/cron                      main cron directory
      /usr/lib/cron/cron.allow           list of allowed users
      /usr/lib/cron/cron.deny            list of denied users
      /usr/spool/cron/crontabs           directory containing the crontab
                                         files
      /usr/lib/cron/log                  accounting information

 SEE ALSO
      sh(1), cron(1M), queuedefs(4).

 STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
      crontab: SVID2, XPG2, XPG3


























 Hewlett-Packard Company            - 2 -     HP-UX Release 9.0: August 1992