Hello everyone,
My name is Ron
I have been taking some classes on linux.
I am looking for some guidance. I have downloaded SUSE. I wrote a script that I want scheduled. I am trying to figure out how to put it in the crontab.
I see everyone saying crontab -e as the editor.
Not sure if that where to put it and how accomplish this.
thanks

Hi Ron and welcome to LinuxQuestions!

Yes, the command crontab -e is the right way to go, since it lets you set your personal user's crontab. The crontab -e command opens a vi session where you can type your cron job specifications. If you're not used to the vi editor, you can choose any other text editor by setting the EDITOR environment variable, e.g.
When you save the document the crontab is set and you can see it using crontab -l. To completely remove your crontab you need the option -r. That's it. Try to write down your cron job and feel free to ask for any doubt.

I wrote a script and I wanted to delete the script. So I problably did something dumb. Better to do it here on my personal computer that at a business.
I ran crontab -r thinking it would let me remover just the script I wrote. Now when I run crontab -l is say "absolute path to 'cron is' /usr/sbin/cron. so running it requires super user priveledges. Before I did the cron -r, it pulled up the crontab no problem. Is there a way to put it back?

Remove a script or a crontab entry? If you want to remove a script you need the rm command, to remove a crontab entry just do crontab -e to edit your current crontab.
Given the error you got, maybe you typed cron -l not crontab -l !!

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Now when I run crontab -l , it reports that there is not crontab for my username???

It's kinda wierd that I show no crontab for my user when I run I run this command in SU, it says that I have no crontab for root?

It's not clear what you actually did. Anyway, root and normal users have different crontab. In any case you can edit your crontab again using crontab -e.

Then I suggest to keep a backup of your crontab once you have created it (especially if there are multiple entries or if the command line is not easy to remember). You can do
If you remove it by mistake, then you can restore it by simply doing:
that is the crontab in this case is taken from the content of the backup file. Please, read carefully the man page of crontab to see the different syntax and options available to manage the crontab.