# cron job examples

Here are some interesting examples of cron job use.

- [http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/06/15-practical-crontab-examples/](http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/06/15-practical-crontab-examples/) – *I didn’t know about @monthly, @yearly, and @reboot, or changing the <span class="caps">MAIL</span> destination setting.*
- [http://www.pantz.org/software/cron/croninfo.html](http://www.pantz.org/software/cron/croninfo.html)
- [http://www.adminschoice.com/crontab-quick-reference](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.

<span class="caps">MAILTO</span>=”someone@somedomain” can be used in CentOS to redirect cron output to other account.