# Fcron documentation

### Thibault Godouet

Copyright © 2000-2025 Thibault Godouet

Fcron is distributed under GPL license (please read the license in Appendix A>).

Project home page: http://fcron.free.fr

Author: Thibault GODOUET `<fcron@free.fr>`

You can get the latest HTML version of this document at: http://fcron.free.fr/files/fcron-doc-html.tar.gz . The SGML DocBook sources are included with fcron packages.

Warning
This release (3.3.3) - as every version of the form x.y.z where y is an odd number -, is a development release, so it may contain more bugs (and uglier ones :)) ) than a stable release.

Fcron 3.3.3 (development release)

List of Tables
2-1. Valid time multipliers
2-2. Time and date fields
2-3. Needed time fields for each keyword
2-4. Vixie cron shortcuts

List of Examples
2-1. Some examples of lines based on elapsed system up time
2-2. Some examples of entries based on time and date
2-3. An example of an option declaration:
2-4. An example of a user fcrontab
2-5. Using fcron in a script: running a job once every day, week, etc, at dialup connection
2-6. Using fcron in a script: running a job until the end of the connection

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