5 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 …

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 …

Dec 6, 2011 · crontab -e and add this line to crontab: * * * * * /bin/bash -l -c 'date >> /tmp/cron-test.txt' this command writes the current date every minute in the cron-test file, you can watch …

10 I have this line in my crontab file */1 * * * * espeak 'foo' && espeak 'bar' But only half of it, first command gets executed every minute. While when I write this in the terminal it works like a …

I have some anacron jobs which run daily. The scripts update local bzr and git repositories. Naturally these scripts need working network connections. I'm on a laptop and often wired and …

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 …

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...

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 1, 2018 · Using crontab -e was the start of the problem - it didn't do anything. It turns out the Emacs setup was the cause (but I assume any other editor could somehow cause this …

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 …