"It is certainly a tool that every system administrator should be aware of and use to automate mundane routine tasks such as backups and taking applications offline." It's common to need an action ...

Security researchers have discovered a new remote access trojan (RAT) for Linux that keeps an almost invisible profile by hiding in tasks scheduled for execution on a non-existent day, February 31st.

If you’re having a hard time remembering to run a script regularly or you simply wish to invest your time and energy into something a bit more creative, it’s high time to put cron to good use. However ...

We have a process we run using cron every 3 minutes. This process basically processes a queue. Sometimes lots of items appear in the queue and we want to stop the process, empty the queue and restart ...

I think I've bitten off more than I can chew here... hence the reason I'm all up in Ars instead of on my box coding.<br><br>I'm trying to go to an FTP site via a cron job and have it download the ...