CRON(8)

NAME
cron - run commands at scheduled times

SYNOPSIS
/sbin/cron [interval]

DESCRIPTION
Cron executes commands at specified dates and times according to the instructions in crontab(5) files in /var/spool/cron/crontabs. When cron is running, it wakes up every minute, checks to see if any of the crontabs in /var/spool/cron/crontabs contain jobs to be run, then runs them and mails the output (if any) to the owner of the crontab (or to the user named in the MAILTO environment variable defined in the crontab.)

Cron normally examines /var/spool/cron every minute, but this interval can be increased by the command-line argument interval, which is the number of minutes between cron runs.

BUGS
cron doesn't understand the idea of daylight savings time.

FILES

@CRONDIR@
    Where the crontabs are.

SEE ALSO
crontab(1), crontab(5).

AUTHOR
David Parsons (orc@pell.chi.il.us)