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Task Scheduling in Linux
Overview
This article discusses some tools used in a Linux system to schedule tasks to run automatically at specified time intervals or at any given point of time in the future.
Some task-scheduling daemons used in Linux/UNIX are:
cron
- the periodic scheduler most commonly usedat
- schedule one-time tasks for the futureanacron
- anachronistic cron; a periodic scheduler that doesn't rely on the system being left on 24×7
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