Explain the five fields in a crontab schedule expression.

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Crontab syntax uses five fields: minute, hour, day of month, month, and day of week. For example, 0 3 * * 1 means run every Monday at 3 AM. Using */5 in a field sets the command to repeat every 5 units.

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0 3 * * 1 /scripts/cleanup.sh

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