For the admins who are new to Linux, I want to introduce you to the cron tool. What is cron? Simply stated, cron allows you to create scheduled jobs on a Linux system. Say, for instance, you have a ...

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"It is certainly a tool that every system administrator should be aware of and use to automate mundane routine tasks such as backups and taking applications offline." It's common to need an action ...

Cron is nice and all, but don't forget about its cousin at. When I first started using Linux, it was like being tossed into the deep end of the UNIX pool. You were expected to use the command line ...

We have a process we run using cron every 3 minutes. This process basically processes a queue. Sometimes lots of items appear in the queue and we want to stop the process, empty the queue and restart ...

I think I've bitten off more than I can chew here... hence the reason I'm all up in Ars instead of on my box coding.<br><br>I'm trying to go to an FTP site via a cron job and have it download the ...