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10-05-2009	#1 (permalink)
bcostacurta Just Joined! Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Luxembourg Posts: 63	crontab : how to comment a line in crontab table ? Hello, I would like to comment and/or temporary disable a line in the crontab table. Is this possible ? Note: the syntax for crontab table is the following: * * * * * command to be executed - - - - - \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| +----- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0) \| \| \| +------- month (1 - 12) \| \| +--------- day of month (1 - 31) \| +----------- hour (0 - 23) +------------- min (0 - 59) Bye, Bruno

10-05-2009	#2 (permalink)
b2bwild Linux Engineer Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Behind You! Posts: 1,064	# then your comment. __________________ Microsoft isn't bad its just stupid. Read my Blog at --> Penguin Inside Subscribe Feed

10-13-2009	#3 (permalink)
bcostacurta Just Joined! Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Luxembourg Posts: 63	Logic answer. Indeed it works. Thanks. Note : it seems this is not indicated in the man crontab.

10-14-2009	#4 (permalink)
b2bwild Linux Engineer Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Behind You! Posts: 1,064	Its quite universal in *nix configuration files... So you might not find it in manual pages __________________ Microsoft isn't bad its just stupid. Read my Blog at --> Penguin Inside Subscribe Feed

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