Mewsoft Auction Software. The cron command starts a process that executes commands at specified dates and times.
Users can submit their own crontab files via the crontab command.
The -e option edits a copy of the current users' crontab file or creates an empty file to edit if crontab does not exist. The -r option removes a user's crontab from the crontab directory. The -l options lists the crontab file for the invoking user. A crontab file consists of lines of six fields each. The fields are separated by spaces or tabs.