Content preview from Learn Linux Shell Scripting - Fundamentals of Bash 4.4
- What is scheduling?
- What do we mean by ad hoc scheduling?
- Where does the output of commands run with at normally go?
- How is scheduling for the cron daemon most often implemented?
- Which commands allow you to edit your personal crontab?
- Which five fields are present in the crontab timestamp syntax?
- Which are the three most important environment variables for the crontab?
- How can we inspect the output for scripts or commands we have scheduled with cron?
- If our scheduled scripts do not have enough output for us to effectively work with log files, how should we remedy this?
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