LPI Linux Certification/Automate System Administration Tasks By Scheduling Jobs

Weight: 4

Description:
Candidates should be able to use cron or anacron to run jobs at regular intervals and to use at to run jobs at a specific time.

• Key knowledge area(s):
  • Manage cron and at jobs.
  • Configure user access to cron and at services.

• 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
  • at
  • atq
  • atrm