Comments on: HOWTO: Use cron to schedule tasks

By: How to Write a Simple Bot That updates to Laconi.ca | Rasila Garage

How to Write a Simple Bot That updates to Laconi.ca | Rasila Garage — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:27:20 +0000

[...] This line will run it daily on 08:31 as root. You might want to change it. If you are not familiar with Cron here is some help. [...]

By: S.POGGI

S.POGGI — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:22:08 +0000

Thanks a lot. I’ve been searching for a while for that “export DISPLAY…”
Very usefull!
sp

By: D.Ksyte

D.Ksyte — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:57:01 +0000

Anyone involved with cron job scheduling might find this resource useful.
Cron Sandbox at HxPI is an interactive webpage where you can play with crontab command strings.
Enter your ‘m h D M Dw’ parameters and immediately see all the times cron would run your job in the coming days/weeks.
Newcomers to cron job scheduling get a safe place to learn crontab commands and try examples from tutorials.
System Administrators get a forward schedule to help manage system loading.
http://www.hxpi.com/cron_sandbox.php

By: Everybody’s Doing It « Bringing Things Together

Everybody’s Doing It « Bringing Things Together — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:36:02 +0000

[...] Posted by greggrossmeier on January 25, 2008 Pete, from Guerrilla Tech Support, has written a nice little howto on cron jobs. What are cron jobs? Read his post! [...]