You wish to edit your crontab file that is located in /var/spool/cron/crontab. What command must you enter to edit this file?

The correct answer is A. crontab -e. The main tool for setting up cron jobs is the crontab command, though this is not available on every Unix variant. Typically under Solaris or Linux one would create a new crontab or edit an existing one, using the command; Use the ls -l command to verify the contents of…

Managing System Processes and Scheduling Tasks

Question

Options

Acrontab -e
Bcrontab -e /var/spool/cron/crontab
Ccrontab -r
Dcrontab -e /etc/default/cron

How the community answered

(37 responses)

A
84% (31)
B
8% (3)
C
3% (1)
D
5% (2)

Explanation

The main tool for setting up cron jobs is the crontab command, though this is not available on every Unix variant. Typically under Solaris or Linux one would create a new crontab or edit an existing one, using the command; Use the ls -l command to verify the contents of the/var/spool/cron/crontabs file.

Topics

#crontab -e#cron scheduling#task scheduling#crontab editing

Community Discussion

No community discussion yet for this question.

Full 1Z0-821 Practice