Using Cronjobs (Updated 5Mar2015)

The new location to store your cronjobs is at: cron.cs.dixie.edu

How do I use/create one?

Example:

• ssh [CITusername]@cron OR ssh [CITusername]@cron.cs.dixie.edu

• Create a cron text file with a line for each job you wish to schedule, in the format: m h d m w command

• Load your file into crontab: crontab yourfile.txt

• Creating test file (testcron.txt): #do this every 10 minutes

  */10 * * * * date >> ~/testCron.log

• Load it into cron: crontab testCron.txt

• Wait 30 minutes, check testCron.log. If it works it will update your file with a time stamp 3 times.

• Remove test crontab so it does not run forever: crontab -r

• You may edit your crontab by typing: crontab -e

Last Updated 03/05/2015