Cron Jobs

Hello pople,

I have a question concerning a cron job.  I have created a perl script that
I want to run with a cron job

In reading about cron, I am a little confused.

the file is called update.pl
and the file is located in the directory of /www/mike/cgi-bin/script/

and I want to run it every day at 12:01 am

now do I create a file called cronjobs with the following info:
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# Cron job for update.pl
01 12 * * * /www/mike/cgi-bin/script/update.pl

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then do I upload this into my root file of /www/mike/

after this I am confused, do I telnet and exucite the command of
crontab ~/cronjobs

I am trying to get this working and must be doing something wrong

Or am I way off base here?

Help

Mike

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