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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

crontab -r This removes the entire crontab file for current user so be careful if you've got other cron jobs listed in there! Add/Edit/Delete cron job (s) Your user's cron file crontab -e Specific …

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?

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 …

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 …

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 …