Definitions
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- noun computing A
Unix command used toschedule the periodicexecution of other commands.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The way it actually creates alarms is by putting them in your crontab, which is easy and satisfying and what cron is for.
Planet GNOME 2008
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Oops, I did do a search of "crontab" but it seems I didn't scroll down far enough.
LinuxQuestions.org jsjones85 2010
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When was the last time that a developer communicated his/her schedule to you in the form of a "crontab" entry?
O'Reilly News Amy Blankenship 2009
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Linux and UNIX usually come with the utility "crontab" by default.
Simple Help 2008
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Nobody running a server from their house will require as close to 100% uptime as possible, just set a crontab to reboot at 4 AM or something ...
Ksplice Offers No-Reboot Ubuntu Security Fixes | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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I want it to check for updates daily, but as it uses a daily crontab to manage this, the PC has to be switched on at the time the cron job is expecting to run.
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Spin's a new recruit at the FCPD, and when he's not keeping the peace on the cross-town RMS, he's got to stop things like the crontab from messing up time, or cope with the Do Right Module gumming up the works.
September 2008 2008
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Spin's a new recruit at the FCPD, and when he's not keeping the peace on the cross-town RMS, he's got to stop things like the crontab from messing up time, or cope with the Do Right Module gumming up the works.
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Nobody running a server from their house will require as close to 100% uptime as possible, just set a crontab to reboot at 4 AM or something...
Ksplice Offers No-Reboot Ubuntu Security Fixes | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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My host moved me to a different machine today — which is a good thing — and they messed up the crontab that allows Virginia Political Blogs to update hourly — which is a bad thing.
alexz commented on the word crontab
"These text files, which list the jobs to be run and at what times, are called crontabs"
- spotted on Distrowatch
cron is the scheduler daemon, a crontab is like a the list of tasks. Wiktionary definition needs a fine tuning.
September 12, 2016