My favorite open source tool for using crontab

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on May 6, 2022 8:55 PM EDT
Opensource.com; By Kevin Sonney
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One of the earliest things I learned about as a fledgling systems administrator was cron. Cron is used far and wide to do things like rotate logs, start and stop services, run utility jobs, and more. It is available on almost all Unix and Linux systems, and is something every sysadmin I know uses to help manage services and servers. Cron can run any console application or script automatically, which makes it very, very flexible.

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