Walkthrough

Name

Cron - daemon to execute scheduled commands

Purpose

Execute a command to be run at a specific time or interval.

Time interval options:

• minute
• hour
• day-of-month
• month
• day-of-week

Setup

For the distribution of Ubuntu used in this class cron comes as a preinstalled and configured package.

Validation

The location of the tools used in this chapter can be viewed with the following commands:

which cron

which crontab