# Clarification on cron.action for container-crontab

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**Created:** [July 16, 2018, 11:13am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/clarification-on-cron-action-for-container-crontab/11134 "2018-07-16T11:13:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 11:13am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/clarification-on-cron-action-for-container-crontab/11134/1 "2018-07-16T11:13:36Z")

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I am reading the reference usage [here](https://github.com/rancher/container-crontab)

I don’t understand the label `cron.action` with values `start`, `restart` or `stop`, what they do and their use-cases.  
I guess `stop` will just stop the container on schedule. Other two - not so clear.  
Could you please clarify?  
Thanks!