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 …

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 …

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 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?

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...

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 …

no crontab for root - using an empty one 888 I don't know what '888' is meaning? Config file of crontab /etc/crontab: # /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab # Unlike any other crontab you don't …

In the example below we want cron to interpret sheduling instructions in the crontab file according to timezone Europe/Paris (replace with your own example). Unlike some other Linux distros, …

Feb 12, 2014 · I tried to set up a root cron job to run a Bash script as root, to run at minute 7,37, every hour, every day of month, every month. This script is located in /usr/bin and named …

Mar 19, 2016 · crontab should respect the EDITOR environment variable, so you can just do (for the root crontab for example) EDITOR=vi crontab -e From man crontab The -e option is used …