Official Red Hat Linux Administrators Guide

To learn more about configuring automated tasks, refer to the following resources.

Installed Documentation

• cron man page — overview of cron.

• crontab man pages, sections 1 and 5 — The man page in section 1 contains an overview of the crontab file. The man page in section 5 contains the format for the file and some example entries.

• /usr/share/doc/atversion/timespec contains more detailed information about the times that can be specified for cron jobs.

• anacron man page — description of anacron and its command-line options.

• anacrontab man page — brief overview of the anacron configuration file.

• /usr/share/doc/anacronversion/README describes anacron and why it is useful.

• at man page — description of at and batch and their command-line options.