Crontab in Linux - How to Schedule a Cron Job using Ubuntu

Task Scheduling in Linux using CronTab to create and use Cron Jobs for executing commands periodically. This video will show you how to use/create a Cron Job using the CronTab Command on Linux and Schedule a Task to run at some given interval. Use this CronTab Command to Schedule multiple tasks and checkout the syslog for information about the task running on Ubuntu.

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0:00 - Explaining what Cron Is
0:35 - Installing Cron if not already available
0:53 - Crontab -e command (editor)
1:27 - Setting up our first CronTab
3:44 - How the scheduling in CronTab works
5:22 - Checking if CronTab is running in Logs
7:02 - CronTab on Reboot, Daily Example
7:57 - More advanced commands
9:17 - CronTab with Specific User
10:06 - Checking out our New Running Task

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You should teach systemd timers instead, the reason is that crontab is need to install or sometimes it has different versions, systemd is basically the standard at this point.