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Linux System Administration: Cron Jobs and Task Scheduling
In this lab, you’ll practice task scheduling on Linux. Using cron jobs, you’ll schedule system administration tasks to run at regular intervals. By the end of this lab, you’ll know how to schedule system tasks using Cron jobs, and monitor those jobs.
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Challenge
Getting Started in the Lab Environment
Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!
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Challenge
Create a Simple Shell Script
You'll start by geting some practice writing shell scripts.
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Schedule a Task
Now that you've learned how to make a simple bash script, you'll learn to schedule tasks using cron jobs.
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The Last Challenge
Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.
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