Setup cron job in linux

You can setup cron job for root user using shell 

List corn of root user

# crontab -l -u root

or,

$ sudo crontab -l -u root

Setup cron job from shell/terminal

# crontab -l | { cat; echo "@monthly /usr/bin/php5 /location-to-execute"; } | crontab -

Run/setup Cron job for root from local user

#su - root -c "crontab -l"

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