Chapter 6
System Maintenance
Section 5
Run Scheduled Tasks
Scheduling recurring tasks is an important job to automate stuff for a Linux sysadmin. In this video we will learn how to schedule a simple dummy task and learn about the cron daemon. - Introduce how the crontab works, and what all the different fields mean. - Add our very first scheduled task with the help of crontab. - Modify our crontab so that the task will now run every minute, around the clock.