Cron doesn't need to be restarted when crontab file is modified, it examines the
modification time on all crontabs and reload those which have changed.
To verify the current crond status:
/etc/init.d/crond status
To check current cron jobs running with the following command to list all crontabs:
crontab -l
To edit or create a custom crontab file:
crontab -e
This opens a personal cron configuration file. Each line can be defined as one com-
mand to run. The following format is used:
minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week command
For example, append the following entry to run a script every day at 3 am:
0 3 * * * /etc/config/backup.sh
Save and close the file.
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