Mission Planning at at time at > at + d Submit Task at Job queue: Use a single letter representation at -q b ... b Queue at -l = atq View Jobs at -d job NUM Delete a job that has not yet been executed atrm JOB_NAME at Batch Mode at -f at_job_file TIME TIME: Blur Time now , noon , midnight , teatime , tomorrow mail Command Interactive mode receive mail interactive mode send mail -s "Subject" < file redirect rejection messages by output &> /dev/null > /dev/null 2 >&1 MAILTO = "" batch with at is not able to specify the time, it automatically selects the system when idle execution periodic task scheduling cron crond Daemon System cron Files /etc/cron User cron /var/spool/cron/username , /etc/cron time notation: (user-name command to be excuted) Day month Week * * * * * eg: */3 * * * * Execute every 3 minutes Time notation: 1 Each time bit should use values in its available valid range of values 2 on a time bit * Represents all valid values for the corresponding 3 - represents consecutive point-in-time values (neighboring points) &NBSP;&NBSP;&NBSP;&NBSP;&NBSP;&NBSP;&NBSP;&NBSP;&NBSP;&NBSP;&NBSP;4&NBSP, representing discrete point-in-time values 5 /# indicates that every # time is executed once in a specified point in time, eg: 5 - 45/3 * * * *
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