14.10 Removing the Crontab File

14.11 Using Crontab to Append a User's Cron File

The operations group has been given a user name ops. They do not want to start from scratch for scheduling jobs. Instead, they just want to reschedule the time of run for the jobs that the application deployment people run. The application deployment group has actually saved up a backup copy of their crontab file as shown in Figure 122:



Figure 122: A Saved Copy of the crontab File

The operations people are given access to this deploy.schedule file. They can then create their crontab file using the crontab file command as shown in Figure 123:



Figure 123: Creating the crontab File Using an Existing File

After that, they will use the crontab -e command to edit the time to schedule the command to be run at a different time.

14.12 References