Cron processes, or "cron jobs," may be used to start and stop applications within a Linux or Unix operating system. You can create cron jobs to perform functions such ...

I am looking around for some advice here. I have been asked to make a script that automatically creates a user, home directory, sets the shell to nologin, downloads a tar of scripts, installs said ...

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I am working on a script that will behave differently depending on if a user is running or if it is run by cron. One thing that I noticed is that the TERM environment variable is not set when run from ...