This lesson covers scheduling jobs.

Objectives and Skills

Objectives and skills for the scheduling jobs portion of Linux+ certification include:^[1]

• Automate systems administration tasks by scheduling jobs
  • Manage cron and at jobs
  • Configure user access to cron and at services
  • Configure anacron
  • The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
    • /etc/cron. {d,daily,hourly,monthly,weekly}
    • /etc/at.deny
    • /etc/at.allow
    • /etc/crontab
    • /etc/cron.allow
    • /etc/cron.deny
    • /var/spool/cron/*
    • crontab^[2]
    • at
    • atq
    • atrm
    • anacron
    • /etc/anacrontab

Readings

Multimedia

Activities

1. Complete the tutorial IBM: Learn Linux, 101: Automate system administration tasks by scheduling jobs

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