Crontab

• List: root@gauss:~# crontab -l
• Edit: root@gauss:~# crontab -e
• Redirect STDERR to STDOUT: 2>&1

                [root@wessel:/sdb1/home/root]# sys crontab -l
                # Edit this file to introduce tasks to be run by cron.
                # 
                # Each task to run has to be defined through a single line
                # indicating with different fields when the task will be run
                # and what command to run for the task
                # 
                # To define the time you can provide concrete values for
                # minute (m), hour (h), day of month (dom), month (mon),
                # and day of week (dow) or use '*' in these fields (for 'any').# 
                # Notice that tasks will be started based on the cron's system
                # daemon's notion of time and timezones.
                # 
                # Output of the crontab jobs (including errors) is sent through
                # email to the user the crontab file belongs to (unless redirected).
                # 
                # For example, you can run a backup of all your user accounts
                # at 5 a.m every week with:
                # 0 5 * * 1 tar -zcf /var/backups/home.tgz /home/
                # 
                # For more information see the manual pages of crontab(5) and cron(8)
                # 
                # m h  dom mon dow   command
                0 1 * * * /usr/local/sbin/backup.mysqls.py > /usr/local/tars/backup.mysqls.py.log 2>&1
                0 2 * * * /usr/local/sbin/backup.uploads.py > /usr/local/tars/backup.uploads.py.log 2>&1
                [root@wessel:/sdb1/home/root]#