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 …

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?

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 …

Dec 6, 2011 · Although very rare, sometimes cron stops working properly even though the service is running. Here is how to verify that crond is running and stop/start the service. Using …

Crontab -e and crontab -l show output from the user's crontab. If you used sudo with crontab -e, use sudo crontab -l to view and similarly and report back.

Aug 11, 2023 · Below is the content of my crontab: toto@toto-pc:~$ crontab -l # Edit this file to introduce tasks to be run by cron. # # Each task to run has to be defined through a single line …

Aug 16, 2022 · 2. Use sudo crontab e When you want a script to run with admin privilege via cron, do not put sudo in the script. Remove the existing line using crontab -e. Then use the …

Mar 7, 2013 · 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 …

The end result is that the /etc/cron.allow file is readable by all users in the crontab group, which is necessary when cron.allow is used to restrict cron to certain users.