[Sygnus X1]

is there any way to tell linux to run some commands by itself (like overnight while i'm asleep) in a certain order?

[Sygnus X1]

got it: i found a way to do it thru webmin!
i love webmin

[kkubasik]

yes, cron is a program that does this, using it can be a little bit complicated at first, but you can set things to run daily or every hour minute, 15 minutes, whatever you like. The command man crontab should give you a basic idea of how it works.

[valan]

If you only need it to run once, at would be the tool. If you need it to run every so often, put it in crontab, or maybe you could put a script in /etc/cron.hourly, /etc/cron.daily, etc if you got them set up.