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Part 1 (on Node1 Server)

Task 11 [Scheduling Future Tasks]

The user natasha must configure a cron job that runs daily at 14:23 local time and also the same cron job will run after every 2 minutes and executes:

/bin/echo hello

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Answer: *

[root@node1 ~]# crontab -l -u natasha

no crontab for natasha

[root@node1 ~]# crontab -e -u natasha

23 14 * * * /bin/echo hello

*/2 * * * * /bin/echo 2min

crontab: installing new crontab

[root@node1 ~]# crontab -l -u natasha

23 14 * * * /bin/echo hello

*/2 * * * * /bin/echo 2min

[root@node1 ~]# systemctl status crond.service

*

### For Checking ###

[root@node1 ~]# tail -f /var/log/cron

Mar 23 13:23:48 node1 crontab[10636]: (root) REPLACE (natasha)

Mar 23 13:23:48 node1 crontab[10636]: (root) END EDIT (natasha)

Mar 23 13:23:50 node1 crontab[10638]: (root) LIST (natasha)

Mar 23 13:24:01 node1 crond[1349]: (root) FAILED (loading cron table)

Mar 23 13:24:02 node1 CROND[10673]: (natasha) CMD (/bin/echo 2min)