I want to verify that my cron job is executing and at what time. I believe there is a log for my sudo crontab -e jobs, but where? I searched google and found recommendations to look in /var/l...

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I have set up ACPI wakeup so my laptop wakes up at a certain time each morning. The timezone for this is UTC. I want to set up my crontabs also using UTC so they fit with the wakeup alarm. How do...

Aug 16, 2010 · I want to schedule a task to run on a regular basis and have heard that Cron is the way to do this. How do I add Cron jobs in Ubuntu?

Dec 6, 2011 · Although very rare, sometimes cron stops working properly even though the service is running. Here is how to verify that crond is running and stop/start the service. Using systemctl: …

Is it possible to run a cron job which needs the sudo command? Like: sudo rm somefile

This explains in detail the piped bash commands given by @rinzwind above. basically filter out what you want to remove using grep and pass all that to crontab at the command line again. The '\n' …

Feb 2, 2026 · I have an Ubuntu dual boot on a partitioned Samsung SSD on a Windows 11 Lenovo Thinkbook 15-IIL. How do I fix BIOS errors and Kernel panics when booting up? The laptop boots up …

Apr 16, 2015 · What is the proper file to use and best way to do this? crontab -e is the best way to do it - this will allow you to easily edit per-user crontabs. If I schedule a task as my non-root user, will it run …

Nov 22, 2019 · This is a double post of Why Doesn't my Bootable USB Boot As this is the better post for the site, I suggest removing the other one to prevent this one being closed as a duplicate. You …