crontab management

crontab is a command line tool in order to manage your cron tasks

The two most important basic functions are:
1) listing the current active cron tasks
2) editing the cron tasks


List your cron tasks
Log to your server using SSH and type the following:
crontab -l


Edit your cron tasks
Log to your server using SSH and type the following:
crontab -e


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