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What is Cron?

by Neil Schneider last modified 2005-06-08 12:52

What is Cron?

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What is Cron?

Cron is a daemon that executes scheduled commands listed in a crontab file. It checks every minute to see if there are ant jobs scheduled to run at that time, if so, it executes those jobs.

The cron deamon is usually started at bootup time.




2005-05-10

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