Tasks automatisation: the cron daemon

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crontab editing

  • You should not edit by hand /etc/crontab. This system wide file may not even exist (on Gentoo it does not exist for example). Instead use
crontab -e u username

This will edit the user crontab, and ensure that changes are notified to the crond daemon.