Talk: Cron

Where does the system cron job output go by default?

I see the command printed by journalctl, but no output.

L0b0 (talk) 23:04, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Link to different crontab manpage

The linked `crontab` man page doesn't match the `crontab` provided with NixOS; in particular, the nicknames (`@reboot`, `@daily`) are not supported by NixOS's `crontab`

These special time specification "nicknames" are supported, which replace the 5 initial time and date fields, and are prefixed by the '@' character:

@reboot    :    Run once after reboot.
@yearly    :    Run once a year, ie.  "0 0 1 1 *".
@annually  :    Run once a year, ie.  "0 0 1 1 *".
@monthly   :    Run once a month, ie. "0 0 1 * *".
@weekly    :    Run once a week, ie.  "0 0 * * 0".
@daily     :    Run once a day, ie.   "0 0 * * *".
@hourly    :    Run once an hour, ie. "0 * * * *".

This link should probably be changed.

Rampion (talk) 12:48, 14 October 2022 (UTC)