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Manage reoccurring user jobs with cron

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Manage reoccurring user jobs with cron

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- [Narrator] At jobs are one time jobs that run at a specific time. Often, we want to create reoccurring jobs that run every hour, day, week, or month. In order to do this, we'll use the Cron service. A Cron job is stored in a Cron table or a Cron tab. There are two types of Cron tabs, one for users and one for the system. Let's talk about user Chron tabs. User Chron tabs are specific to each user so every user has one. They can be managed by a normal user. There's no need to elevate privileges for a user to manage their own Chron jobs. They're stored in slash var slash spool slash Cron slash the username. The other type of Cron tab is the system Cron tab. System Cron jobs are system wide so they're run by the os, not users. Being that they're system wide the super user has to manage them. System Cron jobs are stored in slash etc slash Cron dot d. No matter whether you're setting a user Cron job or the system wide…

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