Ok, I've always had a bit of a beef with creating cron jobs.I write a shell script, I test it, it works, I tell cron to run it, it doesn't work....Most of the time the issue is related to ...

So, edit your cron tab with: user@LJ $: crontab -e My script is called "xkcd", and my crontab entry looks like this: @reboot /bin/bash /home/user/xkcd This will run the script (located at ...

I am trying to setup a couple things on two servers at work and I need some help. First, i need to use cron to schedule some stuff to run, but I'm a linux newbie and don't know how to do it. These ...

How to Monitor the Cron Script Process. Cron processes, or "cron jobs," may be used to start and stop applications within a Linux or Unix operating system. You can create cron jobs to perform ...

A cryptomining dropper malware has been spotted by security researchers while gaining persistence on Linux hosts by adding cron jobs to reinfect the compromised machines after being removed.

Continuing with his Linux 101 series, Jack Wallen introduces you to the basics of task scheduling with cron.