Continuing with his Linux 101 series, Jack Wallen introduces you to the basics of task scheduling with cron.

And that's what cron does for you and how you can easily use it to automate scripts you've written for the Linux operating system.

For neophyte admins, however, there are two huge steps involved that can be overwhelming: figuring out how to add a new cron job and figuring out the correct predicates for find to accomplish what ...

However, before diving in you’ll probably want to know what cron is, what exactly a cron job is, and what it can do for you.