Playing With Cron
Joe M posted in Howto, free stuff on April 23rd, 2010
For kicks, lately… I have been trying to get a handle on cron.
If you need more information, check out this explanation.
In simplistic terms… if you want to automate a computer task… cron is a good way to do it.
And, there is loads of documentation on it, out there.
I came across this… the cron sandbox.
If you want to play with your schedule options in cron…
You type in the parameters for your schedule, for the job.
Click the Run button, and the sandbox creates a list, telling you when your job will execute.
Cron comes with most versions of Linux, BSD and Mac OS X.
If you want a version for Windows, check out cronw here.