Crontab – Quick Reference
  Setting up cron jobs in Unix and Solaris
  cron is a unix, solaris utility that allows tasks to be automatically run in the background at regular intervals by the cron daemon. These tasks are often termed as cron jobs in unix , solaris.  Crontab (CRON TABle) is a file which contains the schedule of cron entries to be run and at specified times.
 Crontab Commands
export EDITOR=vi ;to specify a editor to open crontab file.
crontab -e    Edit your crontab file, or create one if it doesn’t already exist.
crontab -l      Display your crontab file.
crontab -r      Remove your crontab file.
crontab -v      Display the last time you edited your crontab file. (This option is only available on a few systems.)
Crontab syntax :
 A crontab file has five fields for specifying day , date and time followed by the command to be run at that interval.
       *     *     *   *    *        command to be executed -     -     -   -    - |     |     |   |    | |     |     |   |    +----- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0) |     |     |   +------- month (1 - 12) |     |     +--------- day of        month (1 - 31) |     +----------- hour (0 - 23) +------------- min (0 - 59)  |   
 
 * in the value field above means all legal values as in braces for that column.
The value column can have a * or a list of elements separated by commas. An element is either a number in the ranges shown above or two numbers in the range separated by a hyphen (meaning an inclusive range).