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 ...

Here's how I use Linux to automate Windows tasks.

"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 ...

We have a process we run using cron every 3 minutes. This process basically processes a queue. Sometimes lots of items appear in the queue and we want to stop the process, empty the queue and restart ...