- Weight: 4
- Description: Candidates should be able to use cron or anacron to run jobs at regular intervals and to use at to run jobs at a specific time.
Key Knowledge Areas
- Manage cron and at jobs.
- Configure user access to cron and at services.
Terms and Utilities
- /etc/cron
- /etc/at.deny
- /etc/at.allow
- /etc/crontab
- /etc/cron.allow
- /etc/cron.deny
- /var/spool/cron/*
- crontab
- at
- atq
- atrm
In the first video will look at scheduling the once-off job with at; in the second we will use cron to schedule regular tasks.
And now for a little cron…