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Automate System Tasks Using Crontab on Ubuntu

December 19, 2022May 18, 2018 by Jeff Wilson

In this tutorial, we will show you, how to use the Ubuntu crontab. In a few simple steps, we will explain, how to automate your system tasks on Ubuntu, using the crontab in Ubuntu. The cron software utility is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like operating systems. Cron is driven by a crontab (cron table) file, a configuration file that specifies shell commands to run periodically on a given schedule. The crontab files are stored where the lists of jobs and other instructions to the cron daemon are kept. Users can have their own individual crontab files and often there is a system-wide crontab file (usually in /etc or a subdirectory of /etc) that only system administrators can edit.

Linux crontab

June 3, 2022February 22, 2018 by Jeff Wilson

We’ll show you, how to use Linux crontab. In a few simple steps we will explain, how to automate your system tasks using crontab in Linux. The cron software utility is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like operating systems. Cron is driven by a crontab (cron table) file, a configuration file that specifies shell commands to run periodically on a given schedule. The crontab files are stored where the lists of jobs and other instructions to the cron daemon are kept. Users can have their own individual crontab files and often there is a system-wide crontab file (usually in /etc or a subdirectory of /etc) that only system administrators can edit.

You can use cron to automatically run scripts within a specified period of time, create a backup of your databases or other important files, monitor the services running on your server and many other things. Let’s start

Automate Systems Tasks with crontab on CentOS 7

December 7, 2022June 13, 2016 by Jeff Wilson

We’ll show you, how to use CentOS crontab. How to automate system tasks on CentOS 7, using CentOS crontab. The crontab software utility is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like operating systems. Cron is driven by a crontab (cron table) file, a configuration file that specifies shell commands to run periodically on a given schedule. The crontab files are stored where the lists of jobs and other instructions to the cron daemon are kept. Users can have their own individual crontab files and often there is a system-wide crontab file (usually in /etc or a subdirectory of /etc) that only system administrators can edit.