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The system admins will usually schedule repetitive tasks to make their's and everyone's work easier! Scheduling repetitive tasks or jobs is crucial in many occasions, for example automating backups, ...

I need to run some things at 22.00 on every 3rd Saturday of every month, would the following work? 00 22 15-21 * * [ `date +\%u` = 6 ] && /root/test.sh i would use 6 instead of Sat so that if someone ...

Have you ever experienced that heart-dropping moment when you realize you've accidentally deleted all your crontab entries? If you're nodding your head, you're not alone. I also did this mistake a ...

Not a crontab solution but have a look at iCal alarms. I know they can be set to run when iCal isn't itself open but I don't know if they run when that user is not logged in.