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Scheduling the Script with Cron

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Christopher Adamson
Feb 04, 2025
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Now that you have a functional monitoring script and the required tools installed, the next step is to automate the execution of the script using cron jobs. Cron is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like operating systems that allows you to schedule tasks (such as running scripts) to execute at specific intervals. In this section, you'll learn how to s…

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