Crontab

Crontab is the equivelant of the scheduler in Windows.

Crontab Commands

	crontab -e		Edit your crontab file, or create one if it doesn't already exist.
	crontab -l		Display your crontab file.
	crontab -r		Remove your crontab file.
	crontab -v		Display the last time you edited your crontab file.

Crontab File

A crontab file has five fields for specifying day , date and time followed by the command to be run at that interval.

   *   *   *   *   *  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)

Exmaple

of Specific Minutes

3,5,10-15,30,55-60 * * * * /command/to/run.sh

of every 4 hours

* */4 * * * /command/to/run.sh

at boot

To run a file at boot only enter the command to run with no minute, hour, day, month or day of week paramaters.

Disable Email Notifications

By default cron jobs sends a email to the user account executing the cronjob. If this is not needed put the following command At the end of the cron job line .

>/dev/null 2>&1