Scheduling tasks with the Linux cron command

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Mar 28, 2022 9:50 AM EDT
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Cron is a daemon used to execute scheduled commands automatically. Learning how to use cron required some reading and experimenting, but soon I was using cron to shut down our email server, back up the data in a compressed tar file, then restart the email service at 3AM.

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