HowTo - cron

The crontab file

Editing your personal crontab file:

• crontab -e

Editing the root crontab file:

• sudo crontab -e

For details about how to create crontab entries, see:

• man 5 crontab
• Crontab Syntax Tutorial

starting/stopping/restarting

• sudo service cron start
• sudo service cron stop
• sudo service cron restart

logs

cron logs are rolled into syslog

• grep CRON /var/log/syslog