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crontab

A crontab schedules shell commands for specific times. Jobs run as the owner of the crontab, using five time fields followed by the command.

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minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week command

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  • cron(8)
  • crontab(1)
  • anacrontab(5)
  • pam_systemd(8)
  • CRON_TZ
  • RANDOM_DELAY
  • XDG_SESSION_CLASS
  • MAILTO

Source: crontab(5) - Linux manual page. Checked 2026-11-03.