Module Six - Session 20: Running things Automagically

What will I be learning?

You will wish to be able to manage the timezone configuration (to make sure your system time is correct) and you'll want to understand how to configure and manage your Locale. The Locale is what defines your language, country and any other special preference you wish to see in your UI. The Locale usually has a region and language identifier.

Also, sometimes we wish to have tasks happen daily, monthly, every 10 minutes, etc. This is possible to do using cron, and we will look at setting up simple cronjobs. We will also look at a utility called at. at will allow us to schedule a task in the future to run once.

After this chapter I should be able to...

You should understand cron and how to create new cronjobs. You should also understand at and be able to schedule a task in the future.

What should I practice?

As this section is more about configurations there will not be many videos, but more reading. Please look through the links.


Original webpage by Petersen Gross, modified by William Albritton.