Questions tagged [cron-jobs]

I know you can't use Quick filter in Synaptic after purging apt-xapian-index, but is there something more severe? I know there are some performance issues, when you have…

I want to start a recording job at a precise time. As I understand cron only guarantees a job to be started within a minute. One possible solution is to start the cron job earlier and than wait until the precise time. What other possibilities do I…

Since the % has special meaning to cron, how do I use it as part of a command? I found this page http://www.hcidata.info/crontab.htm, which mentions piping echo and sed to escape the % and then remove the extra \, but in my case, the command is…