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

If you’re having a hard time remembering to run a script regularly or you simply wish to invest your time and energy into something a bit more creative, it’s high time to put cron to good use ...

If you're looking to automate tasks in Linux, cron is the tool to use. Find out how it's done here.

Creating Cron Job s To create a cron job, enter crontab -e. The first time you run this command, you will be asked which editor you would like to use. [Click on image for larger view.] This command ...

The new cron job will now run with the daily jobs and will report its findings in /var/log/lynis. And that’s all there is to running a security audit on AlmaLinux, with the help of Lynis.

Put the command in your crontab file. The crontab file in Linux is a daemon that performs user-edited tasks at specific times and events.

Deno Cron jobs can perform actions such as updating state in Deno KV, pinging a website, sending email, initiating a database backup, and calling an API at regular intervals.

Why, since all cron jobs use root privileges to run so why not run those jobs under roots crontab? why do we need another user with less privileges to do so?<br><br>I have scheduled a cron job ...