Mastering Bash

cron

This service runs every minute, looks for jobs stored in its crontab files, and checks if it must be run in the current minute. If anything is found, it is executed; otherwise, cron will be rerun the next minute and so forth. Once the job has been executed, the output of the commands issued is mailed to the owner of the crontab or to the user specified in the MAILTO environment variable in the crontab, if any. Notably, every minute, cron not only reads the crontab files but also checks the modification file of its spool directory or if /etc/crontab has changed and, if so, it will analyze the modification time of all the crontab files and reload them to get any changes made to the job's specification. So, we do not worry about restarting ...