Command used to schedule commands to be executed periodically. It reads a series of commands from standard input and collects them into a file known as a "crontab" which is later read and whose instructions are carried out.
Questions tagged [crontab]
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Is it bad to have a long list in my crontab?
I'm toying around with building an application to display messages on the screen on a desired intervals.
I want to use cron to achieve that and I am considering my options. The most naive approach would be to print the commands directly into…
Yotam
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Cron user root or www-data?
I'm running a website on 10.04 and am not sure how to set up my crontab. Should I create it under root or a user such as www-data? Python, Postgres, Nginx.
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How to interpret this crontab command?
I know that if I wrote in crontab -e following command 01 04 * * * somecommand then it will run somecommand at 4:01am on every day of every month.
What happens if I wrote * * * * * somecommand? Will it run somecommand every single minute? Will…
Bakhtiyor
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Crontab not running
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Reasons why crontab does not work
I have setup a crontab to run a shell script every minute. Here's my crontab file:
* * * * * sh /var/www/stuff/public_html/recycle.sh
This crontab fails to run at all, but if I run the shell…
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