crontab
English
editEtymology
editShortening of cron table, where cron is the name of the system program that handles these tasks, from Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”).
Noun
editcrontab (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.