Mar 21, 2010 · Most cron daemons on platforms I've worked with automatically email the stdout/stderr of user cron jobs to the user whose crontab the job came from. Then discard it. I forget what happens …

May 29, 2011 · What is the difference between the crontab located in /etc/crontab and the crontab that can be edited using crontab -e?

If the OP uses a user-specific crontab (usually edited using crontab -e), he must not use a user field. The fact that the crontab is installed hints at a user-specific one rather than /etc/crontab.

May 13, 2015 · Every one hour (starting from "now") I am able to schedule using this cron expression (expression) using nodejs cron-job. But I need to set cron every one hour starting from a specific …

Nov 12, 2014 · I ran crontab -e and made some changes, now how do I save it?

The preferably solution I guess would be to just crontab -u <user> -e to keep everything in one place, which you can do as root. I like to group my cron jobs by function, though, instead of just by user, so …

0 If you want to block the crontab job for a particular user make sure that your logged in with root user,root user only have access for crontab files. 1.Then go to the dir /etc/cron.d in this directory you …

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Aug 14, 2017 · 10 45 * * 1-3 changeExtension.sh When i am saving this particular file i am getting the following error:- crontab: installing new crontab "/tmp/crontab.eel6sL":1: bad hour errors in crontab ...

The crontab time and date fields specify only the time of day, and day of week. The shell test short-circuits if the weekday is not the first of the month, otherwise the real command is executed. The …