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 ...

There is very little you can't do with Linux … even automate tasks using a simple command line tool. The tool in question is called cron and it allows you to schedule jobs for the Linux ...

These jobs are stored in a crontab file, which contains the action to be taken and specifies when it should be executed. I will be using Ubuntu 18.04 for this article, which has cron installed by ...