Lab 14.6. Scheduling a Periodic Task with cron

albiurs

Hi,

From previous knowledge, I so far created any coronjobs with the "crontab -e" command. According to the solution in Lab 14.6. I'm supposed to create a crontab file named "mycrontab". But where do I have to create this file? In /etc/crontab.d/?

Thnaks.

luisviveropena

Hi @albiurs,

But where do I have to create this file? In /etc/crontab.d/?

Crontab can read a file and create a crontab based on the instructions of it. So, in this case we are using a file called "mycrontab" to store and pass instructions to crontab. For that reason it can be anywhere, because it will be read just once, then a new crontab file will be created in the appropriate place.

Regards,
Luis.