Crontab

Crontab is a Linux utility used to schedule recurring scripts.

GQC uses crontab to download and process HDF files for ORSANCO Flows project.

Cheat Sheet

• Set the default text editor for configuring crontab with the command: select-editor (nano is highly recommended)
• Edit the current user's jobs with the command: crontab -e
• Disable a job by opening the crontab configuration (with crontab -e) then commenting out the line that enables a given job (prepend a pound sign # to comment a line).