Updating all the software on your system can be a pain, but with Linux it doesn’t have to be that way. We’ll show you how to combine the apt package management system with a task scheduler to ...

I've got a few bash scripts on a couple of Ubuntu 10.04 boxes that back up some directories with rsync to a central server, then records in a log file the success or failure of the operations and ...

Task schedulers are important and complicated. The Cron utility for Unix-like systems is one of the oldest, most mature, and best out there – but it can be very system specific which doesn’t lend ...