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CRONTAB(1) crontab CRONTAB(1)

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@kstep.me>
Alexandre Detiste <alexandre@detiste.be> for this manpage & setgid helper
2014-12-10 systemd-cron 1.5.10