For the admins who are new to Linux, I want to introduce you to the cron tool. What is cron? Simply stated, cron allows you to create scheduled jobs on a Linux system. Say, for instance, you have a ...

Despite being incredibly useful, I just can't bring myself to learn these Linux skills, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't ...

"It is certainly a tool that every system administrator should be aware of and use to automate mundane routine tasks such as backups and taking applications offline." It's common to need an action ...

been looking all over for a way to get pg_dump to play nice as a cron job. I've got it to work manually with the command:<BR><BR>pg_dump -u mydb > mydb.sql<BR><BR>With the above command, I'm prompted ...