CRONTAB(5) CRONTAB(5) NAME crontab - tables for driving cron DESCRIPTION A crontab file contains instructions to the cron(8) daemon of the gen‐ eral form: ??run this command at this time on this date??. Each user has their own crontab, and commands in any given crontab will be exe‐ cuted as the user who owns the crontab. Uucp and News will usually have their own crontabs, eliminating the need for explicitly running su(1) as part of a cron command.
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