Question

I need some assistance with the following assignment:

Cron is a system daemon running in the background helping you schedule and execute tasks such as system backups.

In this lab you will learn how to schedule backups with user and system cron tables.

Submit a report that lists the commands that you would use to accomplish the following tasks:

1. Check the status of a cron daemon
2. Stop and terminate a cron daemon
3. Start and run a cron daemon
4. Restart a cron daemon
5. Schedule a cron job to occur every weekday during office hours
6. Schedule a cron job to occur at a specific time of day, every day
7. View the cron tab entries of all users that are logged in
8. Schedule a cron job to occur at the beginning of every month

Answer 1

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1. Check the status of a cron daemon

$ ps -ef | grep crond

2. Stop and terminate a cron daemon

# /etc/init.d/crond stop

3. Start and run a cron daemon

# /etc/init.d/crond start

4. Restart a cron daemon

# /etc/init.d/crond restart

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