XDA Developers on MSN

I automated my entire backup strategy with Zerobyte and a cron job

Zerobyte is one of my favorite backup tools out there. It uses Restic for the actual backup engine and adds an intuitive web ...
How-To Geek on MSN

5 weird but handy cron jobs I swear by

If your homelab is container-heavy like mine, you know that latency matters and it matters a lot. This cron job pings all ...
Ars Technica

calling a script from cron or command line

I have a script that i am using to move data around called from cron. I would like to have the ability to differentiate between being called from cron and being called from command line, so i can ...
Linux Journal

The One-Time Task Scheduling Guide To Master the “at” Command

The at command is a versatile utility that allows users to schedule a command or script to be executed at a specified time in the future. It is particularly useful for running one-time jobs, such as ...
Ars Technica

Creating a crontab file without crontab?

Can I create a crontab file with vi without the crontab command? Currently working on a microcontroller linux distribution, and there's no crontab command, but cron exists... if only I could get a ...
Virtualization Review

Hands-On with WSL: Executing Daily Tasks

The second of a five-part series on Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), now a fully supported feature of Windows 10. This article is part two of a five-part series in which I discuss ...