# Doubts about crontab use

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**Created:** [December 21, 2019, 3:05pm UTC](https://forum.algorand.co/t/doubts-about-crontab-use/1221 "2019-12-21T15:05:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@Tim](https://forum.algorand.co/u/Tim)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2019, 1:56am UTC](https://forum.algorand.co/t/doubts-about-crontab-use/1221/4 "2019-12-23T01:56:06Z")

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I don’t believe crontab works that way - [https://askubuntu.com/questions/874459/why-cant-i-see-the-output-of-cron-jobs-in-my-terminal](https://askubuntu.com/questions/874459/why-cant-i-see-the-output-of-cron-jobs-in-my-terminal) - the command is not executed i our current client but in the background.

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