Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Crontab: 1- Commands

cron is a unix, solaris utility that allows tasks to be automatically run in the background at regular intervals by the cron daemon.

export EDITOR=vi ;to specify a editor to open crontab file.

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.)


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