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Scheduling Tasks

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In this book, you’ve learned about various tasks you can perform to keep Ubuntu running smoothly. You may decide that you want some of these tasks to occur on a regular basis. For example, perhaps you want your /home folder to be backed up every day, or perhaps you want to clean the /tmp folder to ensure that you always have enough free disk space. You could carry out each task individually, but human nature would no doubt step in, and you would forget, or you might perform the action twice, because you’ve forgotten that you’ve already done it.

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Jason Gilmore Steve Anglin Dan Appleman Ewan Buckingham Gary Cornell Jason Gilmore Jonathan Hassell James Huddleston Chris Mills Matthew Moodie Dominic Shakeshaft Jim Sumser Matt Wade Nicole LeClerc Marilyn Smith Ellie Fountain

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© 2006 Keir Thomas

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Thomas, K. (2006). Scheduling Tasks. In: Gilmore, J., et al. Beginning Ubuntu Linux. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0137-3_33

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