Comments on: LFCA: How to Monitor Basic System Metrics in Linux – Part 8

By: James Kiarie

James Kiarie — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 08:28:22 +0000

In reply to dragonmouth. The difference between the two is that when you are creating a cron job for the first time using the 'crontab -e' command, you are basically opening the crontab file in a text editor ( vim editor in my case ) and defining your cron job. As you can clearly see, the file is opened in vim editor from the color-coded entries. When you are listing the cronjobs using the crontab -l command, the cron command simply lists all the entries in the crontab including your cron job. This is more like using the cat command to view the contents of a file.

By: dragonmouth

dragonmouth — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 17:39:21 +0000

The "List Cron Jobs" image does not show the output of the "crontab -l" command. Is exactly the same as the "Create Cron Job in Linux" image.

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 07:35:32 +0000

In reply to Gérard Talbot.

@Gerard,

Thanks, corrected the command in the article…

By: Gérard Talbot

Gérard Talbot — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 20:22:28 +0000

James and/or Ravi,

The 3rd cron job is edited like this

*/30    *	*	*	*

but should be instead

30    *	*	*	*

Gérard