Showing posts with label online tool. Show all posts
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Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Online Crontab Tool

Crontab is a handy tool for scheduling particular tasks/commands. You can set a time for updating the system, shutting it down etc. So, to use the crontab, issue the command
>crontab -e 
This will display the crontab file which you can edit to set your tasks.
These are the options related to crontab
crontab -e    Edit your crontab file, or create one if it doesn’t already exist.
crontab -l      Display your crontab file.
crontab -r      Remove your crontab file.
crontab -v      Display the last time you edited your crontab file. (This option is only available on a few systems.)