Linux – How to run cron job as root?

February 17, 2020January 17, 2020 by mkyong

On Linux, uses sudo crontab -e to define cron jobs that need to run as a root user.


$ sudo crontab -e


# Run every hour
0 * * * * * /path/this-script-need-root.sh

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