This article describes how to setup and use cron daemons in Gentoo Linux. Cron basics What cron does Cron is a daemon that runs scheduled tasks based on input from the command crontab. It accomplishes this task by waking up every minute and checking to see if there are any cron-jobs to run in any of the user crontabs. Note Notice that crontab is both the name of a list of cron-jobs as well as the
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