# Script to shutdown my cloud server on the 15th of the month using cron ## First, install cron `sudo apt update` `sudo apt install cron` ## Next enable the cron `sudo systemctl enable cron` ### Use crontab to run the scripts I'll be putting a couple of cron jobs on the server to run at specific times. We can do that with editing the `crontab` file with: `sudo nano /etc/crontab` > [!NOTE]\ > This only works on Linux systems > ### The first cron job to run SHELL=/bin/bash 0 0 15 * *