How to use cronjob tables (Crontab)

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 149 views

Cron is the Unix/Linux event scheduler. It’s great for automating a multitude of administrative tasks like backing up your data. See Wikipedia: Crontab. When I examined the man pages I found that it is relatively straightforward but has complicated options and rules that take quite some unraveling to appreciate properly. And they’re so hard for [...]