Tag: CRON

Repetitive tasks are what computers do best, although in many areas that's a point we seem to have forgotten. This IBM Linux tip gives you all the knowledge you need to schedule repetitive tasks like a pro. Covering the common cron, as well as Anacron and AT, if you're in need of some job scheduling so you can enjoy a martini while some repetitive process runs, this is the ticket to your ...

Cron is a great utility for scheduling windows jobs. It runs as a service, accepts parameters and will execute any dos command you can throw at it. I am currently using it to upload a disaster recovery document to a web server at work. It works like a charm. Cron, a Crontab document (no more than a text file really) and a few ftp commands later (at least for my project), and wha-lah! You have the ...