Command tip #5 – Start a Cron Job in ESXi 5.5 or 6+

As a root insert new Cron Job (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root):

crontab -e

After you need to restart cron:

kill $(cat /var/run/crond.pid)
/usr/lib/vmware/busybox/bin/busybox crond

To check activity of cron do following:

grep cron /var/log/syslog.log