Linux Administration/Administrative Tasks/Scheduling Jobs

This lesson covers scheduling jobs.

Objectives and Skills
Objectives and skills for the scheduling jobs portion of Linux+ certification include:
 * Automate systems administration tasks by scheduling jobs
 * Manage cron and at jobs
 * Configure user access to cron and at services
 * Configure anacron
 * The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
 * /etc/cron. {d,daily,hourly,monthly,weekly}
 * /etc/at.deny
 * /etc/at.allow
 * /etc/crontab
 * /etc/cron.allow
 * /etc/cron.deny
 * /var/spool/cron/*
 * at
 * atq
 * atrm
 * anacron
 * /etc/anacrontab
 * /etc/anacrontab

Activities

 * 1) Complete the tutorial IBM: Learn Linux, 101: Automate system administration tasks by scheduling jobs