Content preview from Learn Linux Shell Scripting - Fundamentals of Bash 4.4
- What is scheduling?
Scheduling allows us to define when and how a script should run, without the need for the user to be interactive at that time.
- What do we mean with ad-hoc scheduling?
Ad-hoc scheduling, which we normally do with at on Linux, is scheduling that is not periodically repeated, but often a one-time job at a fixed time.
- Where does the output of commands run with at normally go?
By default, at tries to use sendmail to send a local mail to the user who owns the queue/job. If sendmail is not installed, the output is gone.
- How is scheduling for the cron daemon most often implemented?
As a user-bound crontab.
- Which commands allows you to edit your personal crontab?
The command crontab -e. Furthermore, you can list the ...
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