1. Discuss some of the common administrative tasks that could probably be automated by using either the at or cron daemons. Why is the ability to schedule tasks critical for system administrators? Do other OSes such as Microsoft Windows provide the same functionality?

2. Based on your experiences in the class thus far, how do you feel about the overall stability of a Linux system compares with previous experiences with Windows?

Write the lines that you could use in your user cron table to schedule the /bin/myscript command to run:

a. every Wednesday afternoon at 2:15 PM b. every hour on the hour every day of the week c. every 15 minutes on the first of every month d. only on February 25th at 6:00 PM e. on the first Monday of every month at 12:10 PM

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