Random tips and commands to make cron even more use-able and useful<\/p>\n
At the terminal type the following to list the cron jobs schedulated for the current user At the terminal type the following to edit the current usres crontab Add the following to cron to stop the system emailing you notifications The five stars that set cron scheduling options are as follows: Dump \/ backup a mysql database (in this case at 11:10pm every Monday) Command to remove all text files from specific directory (in this case every week) Run script etc on reboot using cron. Instead of using ***** you can use the @reboot command. Other simple commands that you can use instead of ***** are: Random tips and commands to make cron even more use-able and useful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[112,111,113,79,78],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-auto","tag-cron","tag-cronjob","tag-linux-2","tag-suse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":835,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ncrontab -l<\/code><\/p>\n
\ncrontab -e<\/code><\/p>\n
\nMAILTO=\"\"<\/code><\/p>\n
\n* * * * * = MINUTE - HOUR - DAY OF MONTH - MONTH - DAY OF WEEK<\/code><\/p>\n
\n10 23 * * 1 mysqldump -XXX -pXXX DATABASE > \/var\/www\/vhosts\/DOMAINNAME\/FOLDER\/DATABASE.sql<\/code><\/p>\n
\n@weekly find \/var\/www\/vhosts\/DOMAIN\/DIRECTORY -name \"*.txt\" | xargs rm<\/code><\/p>\n
\n@reboot sleep 60;\/path\/to\/Script.sh<\/code><\/p>\n
\n@daily<\/code>
\n@midnight<\/code>
\n@weekly<\/code>
\n@monthly<\/code>
\n@yearly<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"