[ Thanks to tre for
this link. ]
“Well, one of the greatest things in the computing world has
to be automation, and by automation, I mean tasks being performed
with no user interaction. In this guide, I’ll cover the basics of
Crontab.“
“Crontab allows you to schedule commands/scripts to be run at
certain times. For example, if you have a command that needs to be
run once per week, and you always forget to do it (SHOOT! boss
hates that doesn’t he/she? :)) you can keep your boss and yourself
happy, by simply putting those commands in a cron job.”
“Ok, well to start out I’ll cover the flags that can be passed
to crontab.”