Ok, I've always had a bit of a beef with creating cron jobs.<BR>I write a shell script, I test it, it works, I tell cron to run it, it doesn't work....<BR>Most of the ...

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 ...

"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 ...