Adding Cron Jobs
To add a Cron Job:
- In the shortcuts section on the Home page, click Cron Job Manager (Tools section). The Cron Job List form opens.
- Click Add Cron Job.
- On the Add Cron Job page, provide the following information:
- In the Command field, enter a command.
For example, the command rm -f /tmp/xyz
, this command deletes the xyz
file from the /tmp
directory. - In the Description field, enter a brief description.
- In the Schedule field, select the frequency at which you want to run the Cron Job. You can select the Simple or Advanced schedule for the Cron Job.
- Simple: If you select this option, you can schedule to run the Cron Job hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, or at the time of reboot.
- Advanced: If you select this option, you can select from the advanced options displayed in the panel.
- In the Minutes list select a number between 0 and 59.
- In the Hours list select a number between 0 and 23.
- In the Days list select a day between 0 and 31.
- In the Months list select the month.
- In the Weekdays list select a day between Sunday and Saturday.
- Click Add Cron Job, to create the Cron Job.
- Click Reset to undo the changes and restore the default values.