How to Use the crontab in the red hat Linux

hello Friends I am Deepak Saini and i am trying to explain the crontab in the red hat .
its a good topic in the red hat so i explain .
Lets Start
 What is crontab and why we are using this 
 Crontab  is a tool use for automation or schedule command at a particular define time.By defaults all users can be able to create modyfify or delete crontab for themselves.
Cron is a daemon that can be used to schedule the execution of recurring jobs according to a combination of the time, day of the month, month, day of the week, and week. 

Service profile of Crontab 
Package    - cron*
Daemon    - crond
Tool          - crontab
Config file  - /etc/crontab
                  /etc/cron.deny.
In those two files in one we are enter the crontab time or date and in second we are enter the those user name which we want to not give the access of the crontab tool.The /etc/cron.allow and /etc/cron.deny files are used to restrict access to cron. The format of both access control files is one username on each line. Whitespace is not permitted in either file. The cron daemon (crond) does not have to be restarted if the access control files are modified. The access control files are read each time a user tries to add or delete a cron job.
If the file cron.allow exists, only users listed in it are allowed to use cron, and the cron.deny file is ignored

Each line in the /etc/crontab file represents a job and has the following format:

minute   hour   day   month   dayofweek   command

• minute — any integer from 0 to 59
• hour — any integer from 0 to 23
• day — any integer from 1 to 31 (must be a valid day if a month is specified)
• month — any integer from 1 to 12 (or the short name of the month such as jan or feb)
• dayofweek — any integer from 0 to 7, where 0 or 7 represents Sunday (or the short name of the week such as sun or mon) 
  How to start the service crontab 
  To start the cron service, use the command /sbin/service crond start. To stop the service, use the command /sbin/service crond stop. It is recommended that you start the service at boot time.
  
  
  Lets time come 
  How to set crontab for a user
  syntax:- crontab  -u <username> -e
  
  
  
  in this -u for username and -e for edit or create the corn tab for user 
  
  
  How to list the crontab of a user
  syntax:-crontab -u <username> -l 
  
  
  
  allmost same but -l for the list 
  
  How to remove the crontab of a user 
  syntax:-crontab -u <username> -r 
  in this -r for remove
   
  Thanks for reading and sorry for My R.I.P english Jai Hind _/\_

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