FORGET THE CRONTAB MAN For some reason many admins forget the field order of the crontab file and alway reference the man pages over-and-over. Make your life easy. Just put the field definitions in your crontab file and comment (#) the lines out so the crontab file ignores it. #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). #| | | | | commands 0 2 * * 0,4 /etc/cron.d/logchecker