Difference between revisions of "Crontab"
From John Freier
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Revision as of 12:00, 5 January 2010
To edit the jobs use:
crontab -e
To view all jobs by user:
crontab -l -u {username}
This is an example of the sytax.
*/5 * * * * /home/user/test.pl
This is the time coding.
.---------------- minute (0 - 59) | .------------- hour (0 - 23) | | .---------- day of month (1 - 31) | | | .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ... | | | | .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat | | | | | * * * * * command to be executed
Slash example: the following will run the script /home/user/test.pl every 5 minutes.
*/5 * * * * /home/user/test.pl
