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 looking around for some advice here. I have been asked to make a script that automatically creates a user, home directory, sets the shell to nologin, downloads a tar of scripts, installs said ...

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 ...

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 ...

We often write quick bash scripts and judging by the comments, half of us use bash or a similar shell to pop out quick, useful scripts, and half of us think that’s an abomination, and you sho… ...