Scheduling Tasks in Linux using Crontab

• Lucas
• January 16, 2013

Scheduling tasks is a very useful feature, for example in server maintenance and backup, etc. In Linux, this can be done using“crontab“. Using the crontab -operation command will allow you to add, list or remove your scheduled tasks. Example: crontab -e (edits scheduled tasks of the masterdaweb user) crontab -l (displays the scheduled tasks of