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 ...

Security researchers have discovered a new remote access trojan (RAT) for Linux that keeps an almost invisible profile by hiding in tasks scheduled for execution on a non-existent day, February 31st.

"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 ...

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been looking all over for a way to get pg_dump to play nice as a cron job. I've got it to work manually with the command:<BR><BR>pg_dump -u mydb > mydb.sql<BR><BR>With the above command, I'm prompted ...

There is nearly nothing as fundamentally essential to administering Unix systems are writing scripts and then setting them up to run without intervention. Even so, cron has become more versatile over ...

How to Know When You've Outgrown Cron Scheduling--and What to Do Next If you've spent any time around UNIX, you've no doubt learned to use and appreciate cron, the ...

Over the years, several Linux commands have been deprecated, either because they are no longer relevant, have security problems, or have ceased to be maintained. You might still be able to use these ...