Linux Crash Course – Scheduling Tasks with Cron
As Linux server administrators, we need to be able to schedule tasks to run at some point in the future. Perhaps as a one-off command, or a job that’s expected to repeat on some sort of schedule. And that’s exactly what Cron helps us to do – by setting up a Crontab, we can schedule tasks to run at some point in the future.
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Man, you have so many cool videos!
Thanks man
Thanks again for another great video. I have learned so much watching your channel.
So if I use @daily, what time will it run? Is there a way to set the daily time?
the cron job with the echo "hello world" didn't do anything
5:38 India in 1947 be like
Can you do scp or rsync using cron please
IF We choose Sunday, 15th of March,
It means Sunday OR 15th of March.
It does not mean Sunday AND 15th of March.
It uses OR for day of week and day of month when neither is a *.
Awesome video about Cron. Jay – You're awesome. Terrific. I love this channel almost as much, as I love Interstellar (2014).
When you crontab -r on production server accidentally 😅😅😅😅
clean and understandable
Interesting
For root cron jobs, I use `sudo crontab -e`. Is that the same as specify user=root?
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14:43 so I dont need to add bash command (bash ~/Documents/blah/blah.sh) as a user?
Hi Jay I'm able to execute a py script via the interpreter and terminal but it just won't run in Cron (be it root or user) even with absolute paths 🙁
Awesome video! I have so many ideas for this. Thanks for the great tutorial.
Good One easy understanding.
This video explained so much about scripts running at various times.
OMG I never have to do a Guix Pull myself again!
I want to run a batch-job of freefilesync after reboot. I used this command but it doenst work:
DISPLAY=:0.0 @reboot /usr/bin/FreeFileSync /home/username/Schreibtisch/Testbatch.ffs_batch
where is my mistake?
What if you want to run the command every 5 minutes? What would the syntax be for that?
Your all videos are Awesome. Thank you very much Sir. 😇