Chapter 24. Automate Tasks

This chapter covers the following topics:

This chapter covers the following exam objective:

  • Objective 2.6: Given a scenario, automate and schedule jobs.

Running one server or a fleet of servers involves some periodic cleanup tasks. Temporary files need to be deleted, logs need to be rotated, caches need to be expired, reports need to be run, and much more. You can either spend every working day with an ever-growing checklist of things to do or learn how to have Linux schedule jobs to be run in the wee hours, when you’re sleeping.

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