Scheduled tasks (cron)

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Using crontab

With crontab you can run jobs on a fixed time schedule.

This means that you can e.g. download some data every day.

To start an edit use crontab -l , the info on how that file should look can be found by using man 5 crontab.

Be aware of the following :

The scripts will run on the login node, so do not use a lot of resources. The crontab entry will be wiped upon reboot !