If so, you can get a "copy" of your crontab file by doing crontab -l. Pipe that to a file to get a "backup": crontab -l > my-crontab Then you can edit that my-crontab file to add or modify …

Aug 16, 2010 · I want to schedule a task to run on a regular basis and have heard that Cron is the way to do this. How do I add Cron jobs in Ubuntu?

Apr 16, 2015 · crontab -e lets you edit your user crontab without sudo. The user crontabs are in /var/spool/cron/crontabs which is a directory that cannot be accessed without superuser …

Aug 12, 2012 · crontab -l 2. Delete the crontab complete for all users using the following To delete the root's crontab sudo crontab -r To delete your crontab crontab -r 3. Restart the system 4. …

Jan 24, 2011 · Often, crontab scripts are not executed on schedule or as expected. There are numerous reasons for that: wrong crontab notation permissions problem environment …

I want to verify that my cron job is executing and at what time. I believe there is a log for my sudo crontab -e jobs, but where? I searched google and found recommendations to look in /var/l...

Actually, the best way to use crontab is by using crontab itself: crontab -l # list current crontab entries crontab -e # edit the cron table As soon as you finish editing the crontab (via 'crontab …

sudo crontab -e so you can edit the crontab for the root user. If you feel better doing it graphically you can install from the Software Center gnome-schedule. If you want to modify the gnome …

Aug 11, 2023 · Below is the content of my crontab: toto@toto-pc:~$ crontab -l # Edit this file to introduce tasks to be run by cron. # # Each task to run has to be defined through a single line …

The end result is that the /etc/cron.allow file is readable by all users in the crontab group, which is necessary when cron.allow is used to restrict cron to certain users.