Stefan Kecskes

Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching

Edit crontab with NANO

I often need to add some scheduled job on server. I mean something that runs periodically, like every day or every hour. You simply add a command that will run as scheduled and when I say command it can be anything that your system is capable of running. Therefore, it can be shell command or script or even a java application. But let’s look closer how could we set up our own cron task on linux.