crontab
English edit
Etymology edit
Shortening of cron table, where cron is the name of the system program that handles these tasks, from Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”).
Noun edit
crontab (plural crontabs)
- (computing, Unix) A table of commands to be executed periodically.
- 2008, Michael Lucas, Absolute FreeBSD: The Complete Guide to FreeBSD:
- The purpose of
/etc/crontab
is different from that of individual users' crontabs. With/etc/crontab
, root may specify which user will run a particular command.