Top "Cron" questions

Cron is a time-based job scheduler running as a daemon process in Unix-like computer operating systems.

How to create a cron job using Bash automatically without the interactive editor?

Does crontab have an argument for creating cron jobs without using the editor (crontab -e). If so, What would be …

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What is the Windows version of cron?

A Google search turned up software that performs the same functions as cron, but nothing built into Windows. I'm running …

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How do I get a Cron like scheduler in Python?

I'm looking for a library in Python which will provide at and cron like functionality. I'd quite like have a …

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How would I get a cron job to run every 30 minutes?

I'm looking to add a crontab entry to execute a script every 30 minutes, on the hour and 30 minutes past the …

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Execute Python script via crontab

I'm trying to execute a Python script using the Linux crontab. I want to run this script every 10 minutes. I …

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Test a weekly cron job

I have a #!/bin/bash file in cron.week directory. Is there a way to test if it works? Can't …

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What is the curl error 52 "empty reply from server"?

I have a cron job setup on one server to run a backup script in PHP that is hosted on …

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How to log cron jobs?

I want to know how I can see exactly what the cron jobs are doing on each execution. Where are …

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Spring cron expression for every after 30 minutes

I have following Spring job to run after every 30 minutes. Please check my cron expression, is that correct? "0 0 0 * * 30" Here is …

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Crontab Day of the Week syntax

In crontab does the Day of the Week field run from 0 - 6 or 1 -7? I am seeing conflicting information on …

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