Dean Hamstead wrote:
fwiw
some places may also recommend 'crontab -e' which will spin you off
into an editor to edit your users crontab file.
And a word of caution if you are going to do this: Create your crontab
as suggested, but then do something like this:
$ crontab -l > crontab.out
to take a backup, then when you want to make changes, edit crontab.out
and reinstall it by typing:
$ crontab crontab.out
That will save you from accidentally typing 'crontab -r' and wiping out
any trace of your crontab, which strangely is easier than you might
think, I've seen it happen on a number of occasions and if you have
custom crontabs running all manner of undocumented tasks it can cause
real pain (another reason why you might want to think about putting
scripts in /etc/cron.d instead).
Regards,
Craig
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