Have you ever wanted to force a script to act differently when it is invoked by cron? If the script is run interactively, for example, you might want the script to prompt the user for some information ...

If I have stuff in cron.daily or .hourly or whatever how does it get scheduled? Do they run as soon as they can (like the daily at 0:00:01) or is there some randomness involved? I am concerned about ...

Cron is a vital utility within many Linux distributions that allows jobs to be created and scheduled for running tasks at fixed times and intervals. These cron jobs can be created by the system, ...