Background
For some reason, most distros now have a cron header that makes little sense to me, is way to verbose, and I constantly have to search online for the format or how to do what I need. For that reason, I came up with my own standard header which is concise yet has what I need.
Details
The following is my standard crontab format:
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| # Minute (0-59) Hour (0-23) Day of Month (1-31) Month (1-12 or Jan-Dec) Day of Week (0-6 or Sun-Sat) Command
# notice: append >/dev/null [e.g. Command >/dev/null] to discard standard output, only showing error output
# notice: append >/dev/null 2>&1 [e.g. Command >/dev/null 2>&1] to discard all output
# example: 0 0 * * * cleanup.sh >/dev/null #run cleanup.sh every day at midnight.
# Mi Hr Dm Mo Wd Cm
# 00,15,30,45 * * * * /home/drad/bin/net_dirs2 --mount >/dev/null
# always know your shell and user.
SHELL=/bin/bash
USER="userName"
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