Cron Demon: What is it and why is it used?

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Cron Demon: What is it and why is it used?

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One of the processes, also called daemons, very widespread is Cron . This daemon, as we will see in more detail, executes instructions or commands at certain times, set by the user.

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What is a demon?
Cronjob
What is a demon?
A daemon is a program that runs in the laos telegram phone number list and is used to perform certain tasks.

Cron , as mentioned, is a daemon, so a service that only needs to be started. On most Linux distributions , Cron is installed by default and starts automatically from the operating system.

Cron can manage jobs commands so as to execute them only once, at the first occurrence of the chosen date/time, but it is also possible to have the commands executed repeatedly; for example, in the case in which you want to execute a certain operation every day and at a specific time, the Crontab is used , whose commands sent to execution are called Cronjob .

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Cronjob
With Cronjobs you can have a specific procedure run at a specific time and use it from operating systems (such as Linux, Unix and macOS) that provide the Cron daemon.

To set up Cron commands, the order is as follows: [minutes] [hours] [days] [months] [weeks] [users] [commands]

For example, if you want to run a script every morning at 08:30, you would proceed as follows: 30 8 * * * [user] [command].

The asterisk, also called wild card , can be used as a wildcard to represent all acceptable values ​​(for example, an asterisk entered as a value in the day field indicates that this command should be executed every day).
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