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cron is a very useful tool and mechanism to schedule jobs in a Linux operating system. cron can run scripts, commands, binaries if set properly. But in some cases, there may be some misconfiguration or unexpected behavior. So we may not be sure whether cron runs as we want. We can check cron log in … Read more
Crontab is automatically scheduler used in Linux distributions. We have already looked crontab in the following tutorial. In this tutorial we will look different examples of crontab scheduler. Linux Crontab Tutorial with Examples To Schedule Jobs Columns Meaning There are 6 columns in regular crontab file. Let’s call them like 1 2 3 4 5 … Read more
Crontab is a daemon that continuously runs and fires specified jobs/commands. The crontab file is a simple file that holds entries about jobs. These entries include time information and the command which will be executed. Crontab is simply referred to as cron too. Crontab Daemon Service Status The operation is done by cron daemon. The … Read more
I have some crontab jobs. I have set up them with root user. But there are some problems. The job does not work because of security issues that prevent job to run with the root user. How can I set a different user to run a crontab job to run a different user than the … Read more
After installing updates it may need a reboot. Rebooting systems in office hours is a bad thing to happen. What can we do? We can set the Linux system to restart after office hours with an automated reboot. There are two ways to auto reboot. We will look at both of them. Install at and … Read more
Some time generally long-running operations like copying disk need to track the change like disk usage or change of the size of the file. We generally run the same command again and again but this is a very cumbersome way yo see progress. Linux users created a “watch” application to make things better. When we … Read more