cron

Alarm clock

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The cron daemon helps in running jobs at predefined times periodically. However, the system needs to running at all times so that cron can can execute a job at the scheduled time. This condition is well met by servers that run 24*7 hours a week during the year.… Read more

Modern design digital clock in Belgrade

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cron is a daemon that executes programs for users periodically at predefined times. The cron daemon or service is started by the init process during system initialization. cron comes from chronos, the Greek word for time. cron was authored by Brian Kernighan in Version 7 Unix.… Read more