Automate System Administration Tasks by Scheduling Jobs

Introduction

The Automate System Administration Tasks by Scheduling Jobs exercise provides you with the instructions and devices to develop your hands on skills in the following topics.

• Manage cron and at jobs
• Configure user access to cron and at services
• Configure anacron

Lab time: It will take approximately 1 hour to complete this lab.

Exercise 1 - Automate System Administration Tasks by Scheduling Jobs

Linux enables you to automate some regular jobs such that they run automatically at a pre-scheduled time, without any intervention from the system administrator. Examples of such tasks include backing up the system, verifying the update status of the system, or reporting resource-inventory of the system. This automation is enabled by the CRON utility in Linux. In this exercise, you will understand how to automate system administration tasks by scheduling jobs.