Crontab Questions

[kc1nn4y]

Hi!
Thank's for your previous reply, however I now bought a Raspberry Pi and have a few questions about the Crontab:

• Do I still need to do node main.js once for the crontab to start working?
• Does crontab start working after you finish editing?
• Do I need to leave the command prompt / terminal open for crontab to work?
• Do you need to manually start anything or will the crontab do everything without needing 'a switch to be flipped'?

[FreekBes]

• no, once crontab is set up, you don't have to do anything.
• yes, once you quit the editor after running crontab -e, the new rules will become effective immediately.
• no, just make sure to keep the system running though! :)
• see the second answer