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Linux Basics for Hackers
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Linux Basics for Hackers

by OccupyTheWeb .
December 2018
Beginner
248 pages
5h 54m
English
No Starch Press
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16AUTOMATING TASKS WITH JOB SCHEDULING

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Like anyone using Linux, the hacker often has jobs, scripts or other tasks, that they want to run periodically. You might, for example, want to schedule automatic regular file backups of your system, or maybe you want to rotate log files as we did in Chapter 11. The hacker, on the other hand, may also want to have their system run the MySQLscanner.sh script from Chapter 8 every night or while they’re at work or school. These are all examples of scheduling automatic jobs. Scheduling jobs allows you to run tasks without having to think about it, and you can schedule jobs to run when you’re otherwise not using ...

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