From the course: Linux CentOS 7: Shells and Processes
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Reccuring user jobs using cron - Linux Tutorial
From the course: Linux CentOS 7: Shells and Processes
Reccuring user jobs using cron
- [Instructor] At jobs are one times jobs that run at a specific time. Often we want to create recurring jobs that run every minute, hour, day, week, or month. In order to do this, we'll use the cron service. A cron job is stored in a cron table or crontab. There are two types of crontabs, one for users and one for the system. Let's talk about user crontabs. User cron jobs are stored in the user crontab and are specific to each user, so every user has one. They can be managed by normal users, there's no need to elevate privileges for a user to manage their cron jobs. They're stored /var/spool/cron/ the user name. The other type of crontab is the system crontab. System cron jobs are stored in the systemwide crontab so they are run by the OS, not users. Being that they're system wide, the super user has to manage them. System cron jobs are stored in /etc/cron.d. No matter whether you're setting a user cron job, or a system wide cron job, the format is the same. The first column from the…
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