Solaris Ver Crontab. Add command lines to the crontab file. This is because by default the editor used by crontab -e command is the default solaris editor 'ed' and not vi editor.
The tables contain the cron jobs for all users, except the root user.
On a Debian and Ubuntu Linux cron logs its action logged to the syslog facility i.e. use /var/log/messages file: # tail -f /var/log/messages Find out if cron daemon is running or not, enter: # pgrep cron If not running start it, enter: # update-rc.d cron defaults # /etc/init.d.
Of course you don't have to use Linux crontab, if you use one of our managed Linux hosting, in which case you can simply ask our expert Linux admins to help you with crontab on Linux to Automate system tasks. This command invokes the text editor that has been set for your system environment. Although very rare, sometimes cron stops working properly even though the service is running.