cron job examples

Here are some interesting examples of cron job use.

• http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/06/15-practical-crontab-examples/ – I didn’t know about @monthly, @yearly, and @reboot, or changing the MAIL destination setting.
• http://www.pantz.org/software/cron/croninfo.html
• http://www.adminschoice.com/crontab-quick-reference

== updated by Shinn on 2/22/2013 =====

*/(number) only worked in Linux, not Solaris, so were @yearly, @monthly and @daily.

MAILTO=”someone@somedomain” can be used in CentOS to redirect cron output to other account.