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Schedule Recurring Tasks

Use the crontab command to manage scheduled jobs

list of commands that a user can use to manage their jobs

crontab -l	list the jobs from current user
crontab -r	remove all jobs from current user
crontab -e	edit the jobs from current user
crontab filename	Remove all jobs, and replace them with jobs that are read from filename. This command uses stdin input when no file is specified.

Root can use

 crontab -u

to change into other users

all user crontab jobs are stored in

 /var/spool/cron/

you will see text files with the users name that are their conjobs

THe fields of the crontab are:

The fields in the crontab file appear in the following order: