NAME
crontab - maintain crontab files for individual users
SYNOPSIS
crontab [-u
user] file
crontab [-u user] [-l | -r | -e | -s] [-i]
(blank)
default operation is replace
-u, --user
edit some other user’s crontab
-l, --list
list user’s crontab
-r, --remove
delete user’s crontab
-e, --edit
edit user’s crontab
-s, --show
show all user who have a crontab
-i, --ask
prompt before deleting user’s crontab
DESCRIPTION
Crontab is the
program used to let users install, deinstall or list
recurrent jobs in the legacy cron format.
Each user can have their own crontab, and though these are
files in /var/spool/cron/crontabs, they are not intended to
be edited directly.
These jobs are then automatically translated in systemd
Timers & Units by systemd-crontab-generator.
FILES
/var/spool/cron/crontabs
Directory for users crontabs.
/etc/cron.allow
list of users that can use crontab
/etc/cron.deny
list of users that aren’t
allowed to use crontab
(by default, only root can use crontab)
LIMITATIONS
SELinux is not
supported.
Some extra settings can only be tweaked with
systemctl edit
cron-<schedule>.[timer|service]
see systemd.cron(7) for more details.
AUTHOR
Konstantin
Stepanov <me [AT] kstep.me>
Alexandre Detiste <alexandre [AT] detiste.be> for this
manpage & setgid helper