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Scheduling: Cron Practice

linux-security-linux-basics-basics | Level: Easy  | Total Lab Runs: 0 | Premium Lab | 


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A corn job is scheduled by the root user to create log files in the home directory of student user every minute.

Objective: Perform the following activities:


  1. Create a cron job to delete all log files from the home directory of student user!
  2. Create a cron job to create a text file in /tmp/routine.log and write current timestamp to it every 2 minutes.
  3. Create a cron job to add /tmp/routine.log to .tar archive, move this archive to /home/student/ and delete the original log file after every 10 minutes.

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