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 ...

Until recently, I had a cron job running each night at 3AM, which used rsync to copy my entire /Users tree to a backup usb drive. This stopped working on December 11. I need some advice.<BR><BR>The ...

Jack Wallen walks you through the process of installing a web-based GUI that makes setting up and managing cron jobs a snap. If you’re a Linux administrator, you know how important it is to be able to ...

I have a few custom cron jobs running hourly on my Debian server. Every time a job executes I get an email addressed to root. I have a mail rule which filters out these specific emails but still lets ...