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Hi, I'm sorry can someone explain me what is (or maybe who is) Cron ? One more time sorry and thanks.....
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    Hi, I'm sorry can someone explain me what is (or maybe who is) Cron ?
    One more time sorry and thanks..
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    first of all, check its manual. man cron.
    cron - daemon to execute scheduled commands






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    Hi Aram,
    cron is daemon that lets you schedule commands. To learn more do read the man pages of cron and crontab. A daemon is a service that runs continuosly in the background doing nothing but will respond if there is request for the service. Also, checkout the following websites : -

    http://adminschoice.com/docs/crontab.htm

    http://www.tech-geeks.org/contrib/md...ron-howto.html

    http://www.mkaz.com/ref/unix_cron.html

    http://www.math-linux.com/spip.php?article45

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