Subject: crontab -- schedule tasks on Linux
Author: Linux
Posted on: 09/03/2012 05:10:11 PM
If you want some maintenance tasks (creating backups, synchronizing caches, and scheduling update on statistics) to be automatically run in the background at regular intervals, you can achieve it on Linux by crontab.
The crontab (cron derives from chronos, Greek for time; tab stands for table) command, found in Unix and Unix-like operating systems, is used to schedule commands to be executed periodically. To see what crontabs are currently running on your system, you can open a terminal and run:
To edit the list of cronjobs you can run:
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