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Linux Cron utility is an effective way to schedule a routine background job at a specific time and/or day on an on-going basis. This article is part of the on-going Productivity Tips For Geeks series. In this article, let us review 15 awesome examples of crontab job scheduling.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux comes with several automated tasks utilities: cron, at, and batch. Cron is a daemon that can be used to schedule the execution of recurring jobs according to a combination of the time, day of the month, month, day of the week, and week. Cron assumes that the system is on continuously. If the system is not on when a job is scheduled, it is not executed.