Do you have some apps that you want to keep running all the time? If so, and if you're not afraid of the Terminal or the command line, I have a script for you. When I come home at the end of the day, ...

I am trying to setup a couple things on two servers at work and I need some help. First, i need to use cron to schedule some stuff to run, but I'm a linux newbie and don't know how to do it. These ...

Cron processes, or "cron jobs," may be used to start and stop applications within a Linux or Unix operating system. You can create cron jobs to perform functions such ...

I have the following expect script that copies a nightly tar archive to another server using scp. Code: #!/usr/bin/expect -f set date [read -nonewline stdin] set file ...

Continuing with his Linux 101 series, Jack Wallen introduces you to the basics of task scheduling with cron. For the admins who are new to Linux, I want to introduce you to the cron tool. What is cron ...