cronjob

crontab

show

show current cronjobs of current user

~$ crontab -l
...
# m h  dom mon dow   command
MAILTO="<mail>"

* * * * * /<PYTHON LOCATION>/python /<PROJECT LOCATION>/main.py > /<LOGFILE LOCATION>/crontab.log

create

open the crontab

~$ crontab -e

Helpfull crontab generator

output options

log output to file

* * * * * /<PYTHON LOCATION>/python /<PROJECT LOCATION>/main.py > /<LOGFILE LOCATION>/crontab.log

append log output to file

* * * * * /<PYTHON LOCATION>/python /<PROJECT LOCATION>/main.py >> /<LOGFILE LOCATION>/crontab.log

no output resp. output only errors

* * * * * /<PYTHON LOCATION>/python /<PROJECT LOCATION>/main.py > /dev/null