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Unix Cron is a daemon ('service') that runs in the background and runs the commands specified in the crontab file at the intervals specified within. This allows someone to easily run a program or script every hour, day, week, etc.

The crontab file can be found in two places. Typically, it is located in the /etc directory. Cron also supports multi-user setups, in which case you will also find other 'crontab' files in some distribution-specific location (I believe /var/spool/cron, named after the user that owns the file).

More information on Cron can be found by Googling "cron" or "crontab".

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