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Step 1. Login to http://www.generateit.net/cron-job/
Step 2. Select your options like every 1/2 hour, every day or month etc..
Step 3. Provide path to the script file and click on “YES”
Step 4. “Yes!”, its done… Use CCPT and then type “crontab -e” and paste and the end of file. CTRL+O will ask you to save and CTRL+X will exit from editing “crontab”
Step 5. Thats it! now run “crontab -l” to check whether you saved it successfully.
Step 6: For verification whether “Cron Jobs” are running or not; run the command “grep CRON /var/log/syslog”. The output will show that your script executed at specified time, hour etc…
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