Scheduled command execution for your Linux server or workstation

Saturday, August 21st, 2010 1,167 views

Cron has many uses. I have used cron to create nightly backups, update server room temperature web pages at various intervals, generate new email ‘.signature’ files every five minutes, and syncronize files nightly via SSH over the internet. I am sure there are many more. Cron Documentation Cron documentation is not bad (not bad at [...]

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How to check the disk space on a Linux server?

Sunday, July 9th, 2006 73 views

Keeping an eye on disk space usage is critical for a server to stay healthy. The last thing a system admin wants is a system to run out of disk space. So, how does a Linux System Administrator checks his server for used and available disk space? Use Putty or your favorite SSH client and [...]

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