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"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 ...

I have a perl script that handles rsync backups for me. It uses Config::Ini to parse a config file, then it uses rsync to synchronize directories from a remote server according to entries in the ...

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 ...

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