{"id":26857,"date":"2018-05-18T02:18:02","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T07:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/?p=26857"},"modified":"2022-12-19T07:14:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T13:14:54","slug":"ubuntu-crontab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/ubuntu-crontab\/","title":{"rendered":"Automate System Tasks Using Crontab on Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><figure id=\"attachment_26860\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26860\" style=\"width: 732px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-26860 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ubuntu-crontab.jpg\" alt=\"ubuntu crontab\" width=\"742\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ubuntu-crontab.jpg 742w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ubuntu-crontab-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ubuntu-crontab-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 742px) 100vw, 742px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26860\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ubuntu Crontab<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28891\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Crontab-in-Ubuntu.jpg\" alt=\"Crontab in Ubuntu\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>In this tutorial, we will show you, how to use the <strong>Ubuntu crontab<\/strong>. In a few simple steps, we will explain, <strong>how to automate your system tasks on Ubuntu, using the crontab in Ubuntu.<\/strong> The cron software utility is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like operating systems. Cron is driven by a crontab (cron table) file, a configuration file that specifies shell commands to run periodically on a given schedule. The crontab files are stored where the lists of jobs and other instructions to the cron daemon are kept. Users can have their own individual crontab files and often there is a system-wide crontab file (usually in \/etc or a subdirectory of \/etc) that only system administrators can edit.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28894\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/crontab-Ubuntu.jpg\" alt=\"v\" width=\"150\" height=\"97\" \/>You can use <strong>cron on Ubuntu<\/strong> to automatically run scripts within a specified period of time, create a backup of your databases or other important files, monitor the services running on your server and many other things. Follow the steps below to set up the Ubuntu crontab.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_65 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-663de744e974c\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"ez-toc-cssicon\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-663de744e974c\"  aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/ubuntu-crontab\/#1-Connect-to-your-server-and-update-your-system\" title=\"1. Connect to your server and update your system\">1. Connect to your server and update your system<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/ubuntu-crontab\/#2-Check-if-the-cron-package-is-installed\" title=\"2. Check if the cron package is installed\">2. Check if the cron package is installed<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/ubuntu-crontab\/#3-Install-the-cron-package-on-Ubuntu\" title=\"3. Install the cron package on Ubuntu\">3. Install the cron package on Ubuntu<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/ubuntu-crontab\/#4Verify-if-the-cron-service-is-running\" title=\"4.Verify if the cron service is running\">4.Verify if the cron service is running<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/ubuntu-crontab\/#5-Configure-cron-jobs-on-Ubuntu\" title=\"5. Configure cron jobs on Ubuntu\">5. Configure cron jobs on Ubuntu<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/ubuntu-crontab\/#6-Ubuntu-crontab-examples\" title=\"6. Ubuntu crontab examples\">6. Ubuntu crontab examples<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/ubuntu-crontab\/#7-Restart-the-cron-service\" title=\"7. Restart the cron service\">7. Restart the cron service<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/ubuntu-crontab\/#8-Linux-crontab-manual\" title=\"8. Linux crontab manual\">8. Linux crontab manual<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1-Connect-to-your-server-and-update-your-system\"><\/span>1. Connect to your server and update your system<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Before we begin with setting up crontab on your Ubuntu server, let&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/connect-to-your-linux-vps-via-ssh\/\">connect to your VPS via SSH<\/a> and update your system software to the latest available version.<\/p>\n<p>We can do this by executing the following command:<\/p>\n<pre>apt-get update &amp;&amp; apt-get upgrade<\/pre>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"2-Check-if-the-cron-package-is-installed\"><\/span>2. Check if the cron package is installed<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>To use the cron utility, we need to make sure that the cron package is installed on your server.<\/p>\n<p>To check if cron is installed, we can run the following command:<\/p>\n<pre>dpkg -l cron<\/pre>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"3-Install-the-cron-package-on-Ubuntu\"><\/span>3. Install the cron package on Ubuntu<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>If the cron package is not installed on your server then you can install it with the package manager:<\/p>\n<pre>apt-get install cron<\/pre>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"4Verify-if-the-cron-service-is-running\"><\/span>4.Verify if the cron service is running<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>To check whether the cron service is running on your system, we can use the following command:<\/p>\n<pre>systemctl status cron<\/pre>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"5-Configure-cron-jobs-on-Ubuntu\"><\/span>5. Configure cron jobs on Ubuntu<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28892\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/How-to-use-crontab-in-Ubuntu.jpg\" alt=\"How to use crontab in Ubuntu\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>In order to set up cron jobs, you need to modify the \/etc\/crontab file. Please note that this file can only be modified by the root user.<br \/>\nYou can edit the crontab file with your favorite text editor, for example:<\/p>\n<pre>nano \/etc\/crontab<\/pre>\n<p>The content of this file usually looks like this:<\/p>\n<pre>SHELL=\/bin\/bash\r\nPATH=\/sbin:\/bin:\/usr\/sbin:\/usr\/bin\r\nMAILTO=root\r\n\r\n# For details see man 4 crontabs\r\n\r\n# Example of job definition:\r\n# .---------------- minute (0 - 59)\r\n# | .------------- hour (0 - 23)\r\n# | | .---------- day of month (1 - 31)\r\n# | | | .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ...\r\n# | | | | .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat\r\n# | | | | |\r\n# * * * * * user-name command to be executed\r\n37 * * * * root run-parts \/etc\/cron.hourly\r\n23 5 * * * root run-parts \/etc\/cron.daily\r\n19 3 * * 0 root run-parts \/etc\/cron.weekly\r\n23 0 6 * * root run-parts \/etc\/cron.monthly<\/pre>\n<p>As you can see the crontab file already contains an explanation about how to define your own cron jobs. The syntax is the following:<\/p>\n<pre>minute hour day month day_of_week username command<\/pre>\n<p>An asterisk (*) in the crontab can be used to specify all valid values, so if you need a command to be executed every day at midnight, you can add the following cron job:<\/p>\n<pre>0 0 * * * root \/sample_command &gt;\/dev\/null 2&gt;&amp;1<\/pre>\n<p>Specific users can also create cron jobs. User-specific cron jobs are located in \/var\/spool\/cron\/username.<\/p>\n<p>When you create cron jobs for specific users you do not need to specify the username in the cron job. The syntax for user-specific cronjobs should look like this:<\/p>\n<pre>minute hour day month day_of_week command<\/pre>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"6-Ubuntu-crontab-examples\"><\/span>6. Ubuntu crontab examples<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a look at some more useful crontab examples.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s say we want to schedule a backup script to run every day at 4:30 AM. We can then set up the following cron job:<\/p>\n<pre>30 4 * * * \/path\/to\/script\/backup-script.sh<\/pre>\n<p>Or for example if we want to schedule the backup on the first day of each month at 8 PM, we can set the following cron job instead:<\/p>\n<pre>0 18 1 * * \/path\/to\/script\/backup-script.sh<\/pre>\n<p>We can also use some of the following timestamps:<\/p>\n<pre>@hourly path\/to\/script\/script.sh\r\n@daily path\/to\/script\/script.sh\r\n@weekly path\/to\/script\/script.sh\r\n@monthly path\/to\/script\/script.sh\r\n@reboot path\/to\/script\/script.sh<\/pre>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28893\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Ubuntu-crontab-examples.jpg\" alt=\"Ubuntu crontab examples\" width=\"150\" height=\"34\" \/>This will schedule the cron job to be executed at the beginning of each hour\/day\/week\/month or upon server reboot.<\/p>\n<p>If the scripts generate any kind of output, including errors, we can set up the cron job to log this output into a separate file. For example, the following cron will be executed three times a day at 4 AM, 10 AM and 16 PM every Wednesday and Saturday and any output (standard and error) will be logged into the backup.log file :<\/p>\n<pre>0 4,10,16 * * wed,sat path\/to\/script\/script.sh &gt; \/path\/to\/logs\/backup.log 2&gt;&amp;1<\/pre>\n<p>If we do not want any output to be generated we can redirect both the standard error and the standard output to \/dev\/null which will discard all the information written to it :<\/p>\n<pre>0 4,10,16 * * wed,sat path\/to\/script\/script.sh &gt; \/dev\/null 2&gt;&amp;1<\/pre>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"7-Restart-the-cron-service\"><\/span>7. Restart the cron service<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>After you make the changes to the crontab you will need to restart the cron service using the following command:<\/p>\n<pre>systemctl restart cron<\/pre>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"8-Linux-crontab-manual\"><\/span>8. Linux crontab manual<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>For more information about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/linux-crontab\/\">Linux cron<\/a>, you can also check the man pages with:<\/p>\n<pre>man cron<\/pre>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<pre>man crontab\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>If it is difficult for you to set up correct cron jobs at the beginning, you can use some cron job calculator to generate the cron job expression. There are several good <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS783US783&amp;ei=Q3z-Wvu4OKW3jwTgkJygBw&amp;q=Generate+crontab+syntax&amp;oq=Generate+crontab+syntax&amp;gs_l=psy-ab.3..0i22i10i30k1.14494.14494.0.14706.1.1.0.0.0.0.145.145.0j1.1.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.1.143....0.81TxV-9Hj-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cron job calculators available on the Internet.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>See Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/automate-system-tasks-using-cron-on-centos-7\/\">Automate Systems Tasks with Crontab on CentOS 7<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-26861\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/crontab-in-ubuntu.jpg\" alt=\"crontab in ubuntu\" width=\"200\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/crontab-in-ubuntu.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/crontab-in-ubuntu-150x125.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Of course, you don\u2019t have to use <strong>Ubuntu crontab<\/strong>\u00a0if you use one of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/ubuntu-hosting.html\">fully-managed Ubuntu hosting<\/a>, in which case you can simply ask our expert Linux admins to help you with crontab on Ubuntu to automate system tasks. 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