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Creating custom crontab files

I would like to create my own crontab files. For example, I would like to have a folder on my server called jobs where I can input several files that act like crontabs. For example one file called videos contains all the scheduled jobs for my videos and another file called channels which contains all the scheduled jobs for my channels.

How can I get crontab to recognize these files as crontab files?

Solution

  • You can achieve this by these commands

    crontab /path/of/jobs/channels
crontab /path/of/jobs/videos

    Each file's contents will be installed using these commands as a separate crontab file.

    To check that the new entries have been installed properly or not, you may use the crontab -l to view all of your current crontab entries.