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Can I have a crontab?
Yes, just login to your shell using ssh and type:crontab -eThat will put you in the Vi editor editing your crontab. The Vi keystrokes you need to edit your crontab are: "i" for insert, then type out your cron line following the format below for each line, then "escape" to get out of insert mode, then ":" to get a prompt, then "wq" and then "enter" and it is saved.
The form of a crontab file is:
minute hour day month weekday command
To view your crontab file, type:
crontab -lTo remove your crontab, type:
crontab -rA perfectly good crontab might look like this:
MAILTO=yourname@yourdomain.comThe above crontab will execute the script "whales -v" from your "/save" directory every Monday morning at 4:41AM.
41 04 * * 1 /save/whales -v
The "whales" script should be executable (permissions like 700 or -rwx------). The "whales" script should also specify on the first line which interpreter you want to use like:
#!/usr/bin/perlor
#!/usr/bin/pythonIf you do not specify an interpreter, then it will assume you want the script interpreted by the shell "sh". Any output from the script will be emailed to the person listed as MAILTO. The MAILTO line is optional. To preserve shared resources, we discourage setting up a crontab which runs every minute. Modwest administrators will routinely reset scheduled crons to run every 5 minutes if they are set to run more frequently.
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