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System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration     Oracle Solaris 11 Express 11/10
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Preface

1.  Managing Terminals, Modems and Serial Port Services (Tasks)

2.  Displaying and Changing System Information (Tasks)

3.  Scheduling System Tasks (Tasks)

Creating and Editing crontab Files (Task Map)

Ways to Automatically Execute System Tasks

For Scheduling Repetitive Jobs: crontab

For Scheduling a Single Job: at

Scheduling a Repetitive System Task (cron)

Inside a crontab File

How the cron Daemon Handles Scheduling

Syntax of crontab File Entries

Creating and Editing crontab Files

How to Create or Edit a crontab File

How to Verify That a crontab File Exists

Displaying crontab Files

How to Display a crontab File

Removing crontab Files

How to Remove a crontab File

Controlling Access to the crontab Command

How to Deny crontab Command Access

How to Limit crontab Command Access to Specified Users

How to Verify Limited crontab Command Access

Using the at Command (Task Map)

Scheduling a Single System Task (at)

Description of the at Command

Controlling Access to the at Command

How to Create an at Job

How to Display the at Queue

How to Verify an at Job

How to Display at Jobs

How to Remove at Jobs

How to Deny Access to the at Command

How to Verify That at Command Access Is Denied

4.  Managing System Processes (Tasks)

5.  Monitoring System Performance (Tasks)

6.  Troubleshooting Software Problems (Tasks)

7.  Managing Core Files (Tasks)

8.  Managing System Crash Information (Tasks)

9.  Troubleshooting Miscellaneous System Problems (Tasks)

Index

Creating and Editing crontab Files (Task Map)

Task
Description
For Instructions
Create or edit a crontab file.
Use the crontab -e command to create or edit a crontab file.
How to Create or Edit a crontab File
Verify that a crontab file exists.
Use the ls -l command to verify the contents of the /var/spool/cron/crontabs file.
How to Verify That a crontab File Exists
Display a crontabfile.
Use the ls -l command to display the crontab file.
How to Display a crontab File
Remove a crontab file.
The crontab file is set up with restrictive permissions Use the crontab -r command, rather than the rm command to remove a crontab file.
How to Remove a crontab File
Deny crontab access.
To deny users access to crontab commands, add user names to the /etc/cron.d/cron.deny file by editing this file.
How to Deny crontab Command Access
Limit crontab access to specified users.
To allow users access to the crontab command, add user names to the /etc/cron.d/cron.allow file.
How to Limit crontab Command Access to Specified Users
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