> Hello Jeff,
> On Tue Jan 10 2017 22:47:00, Jeff Smith wrote to Tony Comandini:
>> For a task to be run every 20 minutes I would simply use a crontab
>> line as:
>> */20 * * * * /<path to program or script>/<program or script filename>
>> You could for example use the cron line to run a backup of all your
>> user accounts at 5 a.m every week with:
>> 0 5 * * 1 tar -zcf /var/backups/home.tgz /home/
>As you mention in your first crontab line, it is good practice to use the full
> path to the program or script in crontab. So your second line would be better
>with: /bin/tar, or /usr/bin/tar - even though tar is most likely in your syste
> PATH settings.

Yeah I agree another good practice is export the path on top of the crontab
jsut to be sure if is executed, but usually I always put in there the full
path.

Thanks

Tony

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