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Oracle Solaris Administration: Common Tasks Oracle Solaris 11 Information Library |
1. Locating Information About Oracle Solaris Commands
2. Managing User Accounts and Groups (Overview)
3. Managing User Accounts and Groups (Tasks)
4. Booting and Shutting Down an Oracle Solaris System
5. Working With Oracle Configuration Manager
6. Managing Services (Overview)
9. Managing System Information (Tasks)
10. Managing System Processes (Tasks)
11. Monitoring System Performance (Tasks)
12. Managing Software Packages (Tasks)
Creating and Editing crontab Files (Task Map)
Ways to Automatically Execute System Tasks
For Scheduling Repetitive Jobs: crontab
For Scheduling a Single Job: at
Scheduling a Repetitive System Task (cron)
How the cron Daemon Handles Scheduling
Syntax of crontab File Entries
Creating and Editing crontab Files
How to Create or Edit a crontab File
How to Verify That a crontab File Exists
Controlling Access to the crontab Command
How to Deny crontab Command Access
How to Limit crontab Command Access to Specified Users
How to Verify Limited crontab Command Access
Using the at Command (Task Map)
Scheduling a Single System Task (at)
Controlling Access to the at Command
How to Deny Access to the at Command
How to Verify That at Command Access Is Denied
15. Setting Up and Administering Printers by Using CUPS (Tasks)
16. Managing the System Console, Terminal Devices, and Power Services (Tasks)
17. Managing System Crash Information (Tasks)
18. Managing Core Files (Tasks)
19. Troubleshooting System and Software Problems (Tasks)
20. Troubleshooting Miscellaneous System and Software Problems (Tasks)
This chapter describes how to schedule routine or single (one-time) system tasks by using the crontab and at commands.
This chapter also explains how to control access to these commands by using the following files:
cron.deny
cron-allow
at.deny
This is a list of the information that is in this chapter: