RH134 — User task scheduling
Schedule one-time and recurring user tasks with at, batch, and cron.
Goal
Document chapter 3 of RH134 v10.0 while studying it: schedule one-time and recurring user tasks on RHEL.
Chapter content
| Section | Topic |
|---|---|
| 3.1 | Scheduling a future user job |
| 3.2 | Guided exercise: scheduling a future user job |
| 3.3 | Scheduling recurring user jobs |
| 3.4 | Guided exercise: scheduling recurring user jobs |
| 3.5 | Quiz: user task scheduling |
| 3.6 | Summary |
What I practice
atandbatchto run commands once at a future time.crontab -e/crontab -lfor recurring user jobs.- Cron fields (minute, hour, day, month, weekday) and output redirection.
- Checking with
atq,atrm, and user logs.
Reference commands
echo "command" | at 14:30
atq
atrm 3
crontab -e
crontab -lLab notes
(Fill in after exercises 3.2 and 3.4: jobs created, schedules used, and how execution was verified.)
Next step
Finish quiz 3.5 on ROL and document here the cron syntax that was hardest.