18 Oct
2009
18 Oct
'09
3:11 p.m.
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 16:09, Niki Kovacs contact@kikinovak.net wrote:
Hi,
I have to setup a scheduled task on a server, and I just read through some crontab docs. Now I'm confused. It's not so much the syntax of the cron job to define (I got that), it's more... how do I get to define it? Use a text editor (vi or the likes) to edit /etc/crontab directly? Or create some empty file in /etc/cron.daily or /etc/cron.hourly or the likes and then edit it using crontab -e ?
As root, crontab -e. This is all you need.
ne...
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