Raspberry Pi - Crontab tutorial (How to Schedule Cron jobs)

Master Raspberry Pi cron jobs in 20 minutes! Learn all the important things about cron, crontab, and how to schedule cron jobs on your Pi.

0:00 Why crontab on Raspberry Pi is great
0:55 List cron jobs inside a crontab
1:26 Init a new crontab
3:35 Create a cron job
7:09 Customize a cron job schedule
11:27 More advanced scheduling options
15:33 Remove a crontab
16:00 A nice tool to help you write con jobs

[scottmoffatt]

The best video on the subject I've seen. Excellent!

[hertzvador]

Very useful, thank you. My cron job worked first time round!

[fpvtechnology]

Finaly I found crontab tutorial I expected to! Congratulations for the way your explain !!
I wish to shutdown my raspberry pi every day and all the time of the year at 19 H30 . I will choice first option I mean nano . Please could you tell me what line I will write?
30 19 * * * shutdown -h now
Is it correct ?
Awaiting for your reply.
Franck from France.

[BruceMiller-xssh]

Getting this error: Why?

# crontab -l
crontab: can't change directory to '/var/spool/cron/crontabs': No such file or directory

[BruceMiller-xssh]

I am getting this error, why:

# crontab -l
crontab: can't change directory to '/var/spool/cron/crontabs': No such file or directory

[olivereaton]

Where are cron logs stored on Raspberry Pi 4?

[TimHunold]

fails immediately at crontab -e No such file or directory