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Linux Cron utility is an effective way to schedule a routine background job at a specific time and/or day on an on-going basis. This article is part of the on-going Productivity Tips For Geeks series. In this article, let us review 15 awesome examples of crontab job scheduling.
Two Other Types of Crontab. The crontab files discussed above are user crontabs. Each of the above crontabs is associated with a user, even the root crontab, which is associated with the root user. Note that the only difference from the syntax of the user crontabs is that the line specifies the user to run the job as.