Scheduling Commands with crontab

April 13th, 2009 by Shawn Powers in

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Use crontab to schedule commands to run at specified intervals.

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Madhukar Kedlaya's picture

KAlarm

On April 13th, 2009 Madhukar Kedlaya (not verified) says:

I use KAlarm which is a much better GUI based scheduler and alarm clock. I guess cron is useful if you need to save on memory and CPU.

Fahd Shariff's picture

cron writes output to your mail file

On April 13th, 2009 Fahd Shariff (not verified) says:

A useful thing to note is that if you do not redirect the stdout and/or stderr of your commands, any generated output or errors will be mailed to you.

You can look at your mail file (/var/mail/user) to see the output/errors of your commands.

Shawn Powers's picture

This is true.

On April 13th, 2009 Shawn Powers says:

Very true, and I meant to mention it. Thanks for pointing it out. Especially with that -v flag in rsync. :D

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Vadim's picture

Personally I like using

On April 13th, 2009 Vadim (not verified) says:

Personally I like using gnome schedule (http://gnome-schedule.sourceforge.net) as a frontend for cron. Easier to go with if you don't know what are you doing.

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