setting a cron job

[H.S.]

Jamie Griffin wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I also wanted to ask how i can set a cron job to poll mail at, say, 5 minute intervals. 
> 
> I found an article which says to use 'crontab -e' and add an appropriate line to a text file. However, when i tried this i had a strange error message so aborted the process. I wasn't sure if the given method was for another linux distribution or not. 
> 
> does anyone know the best way to do this? 
> 
> Thanks in advance, Jamie 
> 

Here, this should get this all sorted out:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-do-i-add-jobs-to-cron-under-linux-or-unix-oses/