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"Cron Jobs"

What are these?
What can i do with them?
Are they useful in any way?

thanks for your help.

What are these?
What can i do with them?
Are they useful in any way?

thanks for your help.

haven't a clue, have you search on google ?

batch jobs that are run on UNIX

any idea bout the other two questions?

I was looking through all the things i can do with my new host and that was listed and i dont have a clue as to how i can use it!

Valentino Rossi wrote:
> haven't a clue, have you search on google ?

Obviously he hasn't so I'll do it for him. Oh and this is the very first link that appears from Google.

http://www.unixgeeks.org/security/newbie/unix/cron-1.html

What host did you go to in the end?

You use cron to run commands at certain times. For instance, I use cron on my linux server - every night at 4am it contacts Mandrake to see if there are any security updates. If there are, it downloads and installs them.

Or at least it would if I could be bothered to figure out why it doesn't work, but you get the idea :o

Heh, kinda defeats the whole point of it, eh?

Miserableman wrote:
> Or at least it would if I could be bothered to figure out why it
> doesn't work, but you get the idea :o

If I wanted to sum up my Linux experience in one sentence then that would be it.

unknown kernel wrote:
> If I wanted to sum up my Linux experience in one sentence then that
> would be it.


I'm still going back for more pain :O(