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This article mainly introduces "how to use the basic composition and configuration of Crontab in Linux". In daily operation, I believe many people have doubts about how to use the basic composition and configuration of Crontab in Linux. The editor consulted all kinds of materials and sorted out simple and easy-to-use methods of operation. I hope it will be helpful to answer the doubts about "how to use the basic composition and configuration of Crontab in Linux". Next, please follow the editor to study!

[basic composition of Crontab]

① system Service CROND: refreshes scheduled tasks from the configuration file every minute

② configuration files: setting scheduled tasks in file mode

③ configuration tool crontab: timing task for use adjustment

[configuration file format of configuration file]

* COMMAND

The first *: 0-59 minutes means execution every minute.

The second *: 0-23 hours

Third *: date 1-31

The fourth *: month 1-12

The fifth *: week 0-7 (0 or 7 means Sunday)

Restart Apache at 21:30 every night

The code is as follows:

30 21 * service httpd restart

Restart Apache at 4:45 on the 1st, 10th and 22nd of each month

The code is as follows:

45 4 1 10 service httpd restart 22 * *

Restart Apache at 4:45 on the 1st to 10th of each month

The code is as follows:

45 4 1-10 * * service httpd restart

[example 4] restart Apache every two minutes (with no condition)

The code is as follows:

* / 2 * service httpd restart

[example 5] restart Apache in odd minutes per hour

The code is as follows:

1-59TX 2 * service httpd restart

Restart in 1 minute

(the even number is 0-58 thumb 2)

Restart Apache every 1 hour (conditional) between 11:00 and 7 a.m.

The code is as follows:

0 23-7max 1 * service httpd restart

Note: 0 for minutes, and * for any minute from 23:00 to 7 o'clock, is obviously not the result we want.

[example 7] restart Apache every 30 minutes between 18:00 and 23:00 every day (conditional)

The code is as follows:

0pr 30 18-23 * service httpd restart

Or

The code is as follows:

0-59thumb 30 18-23 * service httpd restart

[summary]

① * means match at all times

② can use "An and B" to denote An or B or C to execute commands.

③ can use "A murb" to mean execute commands between An and B.

④ can use "* / A" to indicate that the command is executed every A minute (hour, etc.)

[use of crontab tool]

Crontab help Information

The code is as follows:

Crontab-- h

Or

The code is as follows:

Crontab-help

① views the scheduled task list of a user (dee)

The code is as follows:

Crontab-l-u dee

② modifies a user's scheduled task (dee)

The code is as follows:

Crontab-e-u dee

Save exit with: wq (it seems that the Ubuntu system exit editing schedule task is a little more complicated)

③ to view the generated final scheduled task file

The code is as follows:

-/ var/spool/cron

Use

The code is as follows:

Tail-f / var/log/cron

View crontan's log

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