Cron processes, or "cron jobs," may be used to start and stop applications within a Linux or Unix operating system. You can create cron jobs to perform functions such ...

I have the following expect script that copies a nightly tar archive to another server using scp. Code: #!/usr/bin/expect -f set date [read -nonewline stdin] set file ...

It's a good idea to get into the habit of full paths in all shell scripts and cron jobs, the environment can be rather different to what you're expecting. I tend to declare commonly used binaries in ...