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Linux Cron utility is an effective way to schedule a routine background job at a specific time and/or day on an on-going basis. This article is part of the on-going Productivity Tips For Geeks series. In this article, let us review 15 awesome examples of crontab job scheduling.
The directory is often used by packages, and the crontab files allow a user to be associated with the commands in them. Example: Instead of adding a line to /etc/crontab, which Rusty knows is not a good idea, he might well add a file to the directory /etc/cron.d with the name rusty, containing his cron line above.