How to run crontab jobs on linux system ?

Friday, August 20th, 2010 165 views

The cron daemon is a long running process that executes commands at specific dates and times. To schedule one-time only tasks with cron, use at or batch. For commands that need to be executed repeatedly (e.g. hourly, daily or weekly), use crontab, which has the following options: crontab filename Install filename as your crontab file. [...]