I am looking around for some advice here. I have been asked to make a script that automatically creates a user, home directory, sets the shell to nologin, downloads a tar of scripts, installs said ...

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.<BR><BR>I tend to declare commonly used ...

The find program is a very powerful system administration tool. This command is used by the updatedb script as well as various /etc/crontab scripts when installed on your system. The command requires ...

Using insecure protocols leaves your data and connected machines vulnerable to attack. Remote server management requirements demand that security be given a top priority. This article explains my ...

Continuing with his Linux 101 series, Jack Wallen introduces you to the basics of task scheduling with cron.