Remove crontab file

Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. All rights reserved Terms of Service. Question : How can I install all the schedule jobs from a text file to the crontab?

Install Crontab in Batch Mode By specifying the file name as an argument to crontab command, you can install the new cron jobs from a text file as shown below.

Asked 7 years, 10 months ago. Active 1 year, 2 months ago. Viewed 64k times. I have no idea how to run a cron job in linux. Harry Harry 4, 16 16 gold badges 71 71 silver badges 99 99 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. When you are done, you can use crontab -l to list your personal crontab. Ben Whaley Ben Whaley Marko Kohtala Marko Kohtala 4 4 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges. Logrotate is the tool of choice here.

I tend to roll logs when a certain log file size is reached and then gzip old logs. That way the number of files does depend on the log volume, and not on time. Jan-Philip Gehrcke. You guys are doing it the HARD way. NickCoder 1, 2 2 gold badges 17 17 silver badges 30 30 bronze badges. This absolutely does not answer the question. Removing all log files that are older than 7 days is vastly different from removing a log file on the 7th day.

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By default, crontab file protections are set up so that you cannot inadvertently delete a crontab file by using the rm command. Instead, use the crontab -r command to remove crontab files.

Become the root user to remove a crontab file that belongs to root or another user. Roles contain authorizations and privileged commands. Removing crontab files for another user requires superuser privileges.

Caution - If you accidentally type the crontab command with no option, press the interrupt character for your editor.

This character allows you to quit without saving changes. If you instead saved changes and exited the file, the existing crontab file would be overwritten with an empty file. The following example shows how user smith uses the crontab -r command to remove his own crontab file.

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