For the admins who are new to Linux, I want to introduce you to the cron tool. What is cron? Simply stated, cron allows you to create scheduled jobs on a Linux system. Say, for instance, you have a ...

"It is certainly a tool that every system administrator should be aware of and use to automate mundane routine tasks such as backups and taking applications offline." It's common to need an action ...

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Task schedulers are important and complicated. The Cron utility for Unix-like systems is one of the oldest, most mature, and best out there – but it can be very system specific which doesn’t lend ...