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Troubleshoot and Check Cron Job Logs

Troubleshoot and Check Cron Job Logs

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

How To Schedule Tasks From Command Line In Windows With Schtasks?

Recurring tasks are generally schedules with scheduled task manager. Scheduled task manager have GUI for management but creating a task in 20 different servers is very hard and trivial job. Windows operating systems provide tool called schtasks which is used to create, modify, delete scheduled tasks. Help Help  about scheduling tasks command schtasks can be printed with … Read more

Linux Scheduling Commands With at, atq, atrm and batch Examples

Scheduling commands in IT environments are important. There are tools like at , atq , atrm , batch . We will look all of them in this tutorial. Schedule Job At While scheduling jobs we will use at command. At command have very causal time specification. We will look varying time specification in the next example in detail. Now we … Read more

How To Run Parallel Jobs/Process/Programs in Bash

We generally run jobs in bash in serial order. Serial order means one command runs and after completion other command starts. There is another way to run jobs which are named parallel. Running parallel means multiple jobs run at the same time side by side. Send Job To The Background We will start with a … Read more