Creating your first crontab job is a three-part process: Prepare the absolute path to the program or script that you want to run Create a text file containing a line to schedule the job as described above for crontab fields Upload the text file to your system cron When preparing program to run or creating scripts to run remember that crontab jobs are background tasks. There is no terminal attached to a crontab job so there should be no print statements that normally write to the screen. (It is possible to redirect such print statements.) The same consideration hold true for requesting user input. Let’s assume that we want to…