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- Create a simple reminder system with Cron
- Create a reminder app with cronThe download version of this article is available here:http://techrepublic.com.com/5138-3513-5928251.htmlWhat is you most embarrassing missed appointment? What application do you use to remind you of upcoming events?miss appointments?only if my need for sleep is more important. ~G~I just remember them.got a great memory, so I utilize...
- Tags: Mark W. Kaelin
- Discussion threads 2005-11-02
- task scheduler
- which periodic command scheduler do you use?what strengths does it have over the others?what areas could it use improvement?at or cronI use "at" and "cron", both are execelent tools you can program task to run hourly, a specific day and time month, for a period for example every 2 hours,...
- Tags: Jaqui, job, linux, scheduler
- Discussion threads 2005-07-13
- Gather disk usage statistics with iostat
- PreinstalledI run RedHat Linux 9 and discovered that iostat is preinstalled on my system. It might make sense to run this as a cron job and send it's output to a file for future review. This way you could receive a report over a longer time period without...
- Tags: cron, disk, hardware, iostat, linux, Roger
- Discussion threads 2005-06-14
- Automating common tasks with cron
- Look under the hood of any modern Linux distribution, andyou'll find an assortment of gems hidden inside. There's the Vi editor for all ofyour text processing needs; the SSH shell for secure connections; the Apache server for Website publishing; the Samba suite of tools for file sharing...the list goes onand...
- Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Guest Contributor, Cron
- Technical articles 2004-08-03
- Tech Tip: Schedule tasks with cron
- Scheduling application execution is useful in several ways. It allows you to execute a script at certain times of the day, define what day to execute it, run a program to perform a certain task if the conditions are right, and more. ...
- Tags: Guest Contributor, Linux Tips Newsletter, Cron
- Technical articles 2003-12-08
Additional Resources
- Cron for Windows (zip)
- Cron for Windows it lets you automate your Windows (95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP) machine. Schedule programs to run at a set time on a set day or set times on set days. It performs the same function as the UNIX cron daemon, but has a friendly graphical (or...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2006-05-30
- manage cron entry via script
- Hi,i am building a custom rpm which i also want to do the following:1. install a crontab entry for 11pm, to run a script daily2. automatically remove the cron entry when removing the rpm3. upgrade the cron entry if changed when upgrading the rpm.I know a bit about shell scripting,...
- Tags: support@..., linux, rpm
- Q&A 2006-07-31
- Schedule periodic tasks with cron
- Vincent Danen covers the basics of scheduling basic system and user tasks with cron, such as downloading e-mail at certain intervals and restarting services.
- Tags: Basics, Interval, Vincent Danen, E-mail, Online Communications
- Download resources 2008-08-18
- Z-Cron (zip)
- A time schedule service alias task Scheduler is an important constituent of a system for the regular execution of recurring tasks. Z-Cron is a task planner with whom you have carried out on your PC time controlledly tasks tasks automatically. Z-Cron is a central coordinating point for the time control...
- Tags: Andreas Baumann, Z-Cron, Productivity
- Software downloads 2008-07-18
- Never miss another appointment with this cron reminder system
- Take advantage of cron's built-in capabilities to create a system that sends you e-mail reminders on particular dates. With a little cron creativity and some UNIX or Linux glue, it's easy to create an automated system which sends you reminders of important events by e-mail. The core...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., E-mail, Recruitment & Selection, UNIX, Linux, Operating Systems, Online Communications, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Software
- Download resources 2005-11-02
- Schedule periodic tasks with cron
- Vincent Danen covers the basics of scheduling basic system and user tasks with cron, such as downloading e-mail at certain intervals and restarting services. by Vincent Danen
- Tags: Job, Script, Vincent Danen, Linux, Recruitment & Selection, E-mail, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Online Communications
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- EZcron (zip)
- Cron Jobs are scheduled tasks that you set up through your Web hosting provider in order to execute a multitude of operations such as launching a remote Web PHP script on an automatic schedule. EZcron simplifies the setting and running of automated Eeb scripts directly from your desktop without the...
- Tags: Web Hosting Company, EZcron, Web Hosting, Internet
- Software downloads 2005-10-25
- PhpJobScheduler (zip)
- PhpJobScheduler - scheduling PHP scripts to run at set intervals your replacement for cron jobs. Designed to automate tasks by scheduling PHP scripts to run at set intervals, a replacement for cron jobs on Unix or scheduled tasks using Microsoft Scheduler. phpJobScheduler is a scheduler that runs using PHP and...
- Tags: PHP, phpJobScheduler, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2006-07-10
- Monitor bandwidth with vnStat
- Vincent Danen helps you get started using the Linux tool vnStat to monitor your bandwidth usage. Keeping track of bandwidth usage is a good thing for a variety of reasons, particularly in situations where bandwidth accounting is required, such as paying for Internet services that are dependent...
- Tags: vnStat, Linux, UNIX, Vincent Danen, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, monitor, Linux Tips Newsletter, Job, TechRepublic Inc., Bandwidth, Software
- Technical articles 2007-05-25
- One-time scheduling of tasks with At
- Scheduling services with cron and similar tools is great for repetitive tasks but inconvenient for one-time tasks. Vincent Danen introduces the flexible At command for tasks that only need to be accomplished once.
- Tags: Task, Vincent Danen, Productivity
- Download resources 2008-08-25
- Tech Tip: Find files with slocate
- Here's how to find files with slocate. When searching for a file, the first command most users try is the which command. However, this works only for files included in the user's PATH. If a file isn't in the user's PATH, the which command...
- Tags: Guest Contributor, Linux Tips Newsletter, Database, File, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Technical articles 2004-07-28
- using sendmail from a different host
- Hello,I have an existing redhat 9 boxes, BOX1 and BOX2,i also setup BOX1 to be a mailserver and everything is doin fine. On BOX1, im using mail (/bin/mail) on my cron lists and also working well.but when i use the same cron entry on BOX2, i dont receive mail.How can...
- Tags: E-mail, Box1, Box2
- Q&A 2005-11-14
- Disk usage monitoring
- Learn to use scripting and cron to run regular scripts that will monitor your disk space. Monitoring disk usage is a critical part of running any server. There is nothing worse than having a runaway process or malicious user fill up a filesystem only to find out...
- Tags: Vincent Danen, file system, monitoring, disk, Linux Tips Newsletter, Script, Monitoring Disk Usage
- Technical articles 2005-10-03
- Remote shutdown in linux
- hi, i am not so good in linux bu am working with more that 270 linux system where some people are not shuting down and linux is crashin down and has to be restared and the performance is going down so i want to schedule an remote shutdown can anybody...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux
- Discussion threads 2006-08-10
- VisualCron screenshots
- Windows administrators no longer have to suffer cron envy. This photo gallery shows you just how powerful and easy-to-use VisualCron is. In this The Right Tool for the Job? blog post, Joshua Hoskins explains how VisualCron gives Windows admins the advanced task scheduling functionality that Unix/Linux admins take for granted.
- Tags: blog, job, Linux, Microsoft Windows, photograph, Unix, VisualCron
- Image galleries 2006-06-26
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