cron-manager

Schedule and manage cron jobs.

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Install skill "cron-manager" with this command: npx skills add winsorllc/upgraded-carnival/winsorllc-upgraded-carnival-cron-manager

Cron Manager Skill

Schedule and manage cron jobs.

When to Use

  • Create new scheduled tasks

  • List existing cron jobs

  • Remove scheduled tasks

  • Test cron expressions

  • Convert human-readable schedules to cron

Cron Basics

Cron Expression Format

┌───────────── minute (0 - 59) │ ┌───────────── hour (0 - 23) │ │ ┌───────────── day of month (1 - 31) │ │ │ ┌───────────── month (1 - 12) │ │ │ │ ┌───────────── day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday = 0) │ │ │ │ │


Common Patterns

Schedule Cron Description

Every minute


Run every minute

Every hour 0 * * * *

Run at minute 0 of every hour

Daily at midnight 0 0 * * *

Run at midnight

Daily at 9am 0 9 * * *

Run at 9am

Weekly on Sunday 0 0 * * 0

Run at midnight Sunday

Monthly 0 0 1 * *

Run at midnight on 1st

Every 5 minutes */5 * * * *

Run every 5 minutes

Every 30 minutes */30 * * * *

Run every 30 minutes

Manage Cron Jobs

List User Crontab

List current crontab

crontab -l

List for specific user

crontab -l -u username

Add Cron Job

Edit crontab

crontab -e

Add from command line

(crontab -l 2>/dev/null; echo "0 9 * * * /path/to/script.sh") | crontab -

Remove Cron Job

Remove all crontabs

crontab -r

Remove for specific user

crontab -r -u username

Specific Operations

Run job immediately (test)

/path/to/script.sh

Check cron service status

systemctl status cron # or crond

View cron logs

journalctl -u cron # systemd tail -f /var/log/cron # other systems

Cron Utilities

Validate Cron Expression

Using Python

python3 -c " from croniter import croniter import sys if len(sys.argv) > 1: expr = sys.argv[1] if croniter.is_valid(expr): print('Valid cron expression') # Show next 5 runs cron = croniter(expr) for i in range(5): print(cron.get_next()) else: print('Invalid cron expression') "

Using online tools or crontab.guru

curl -s "https://crontab.guru/0+9+*+*+*"

Human-Readable Conversion

Using python-crontab

python3 -c " from crontab import CronSitemap c = CronSitemap('0 9 * * *') print(c.human_readable) "

Script Examples

Backup Script Schedule

Add daily backup at 2am

(crontab -l 2>/dev/null; echo "0 2 * * * /usr/local/bin/backup.sh >> /var/log/backup.log 2>&1") | crontab -

Log Cleanup

Clean logs older than 7 days, daily at 3am

(crontab -l 2>/dev/null; echo "0 3 * * * find /var/log -name '*.log' -mtime +7 -delete") | crontab -

Health Check

Check every 5 minutes

(crontab -l 2>/dev/null; echo "*/5 * * * * curl -s https://example.com/health") | crontab -

Special Characters

Character Meaning

Any value

,

List (1,3,5)

Range (1-5)

/

Step (*/15 = every 15)

Notes

  • Cron jobs run with user's default shell

  • Use absolute paths for scripts

  • Redirect output to log files

  • Consider timezone (cron uses system TZ)

  • Thepopebot uses config/CRONS.json for job scheduling

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