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Asked: 2026-06-18T08:20:45+00:00

I have a crontab installed on my server, which is assigned to do some

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I have a crontab installed on my server, which is assigned to do some jobs. Now I want to assign one more job which will be executed after the last one.

From what I learned during my research, I need to specify the file I want to execute in /var/spool/cron/crontab/root. But the interesting thing is that this file has a header:

# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE – edit the master and reinstall.

I didn’t find any mention about master in any manual. Does it mean that I can’t just put the line in the file I mentioned above and save it? I am asking before trying to do so because I am not the owner of the server and I do not want to mess it up. I have cron v5.0 installed.

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  1. Editorial Team

    i think you just do

    crontab -e

    And crontab will take care of the rest….

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