Linux

Cron is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like operating systems, which is used to automate repetitive tasks. It is a daemon (a background process) that runs continuously and executes commands at specified times, called cronjobs. A cronjob can be any command, script or program that needs to be executed...

The shell is a program that accepts and interprets commands. Besides bash, Linux supports many other shell programs, such as ksh, zsh, csh, and fish. Each of these shells have some unique features that sets them apart from other shells. In this article, we shall see multiple methods you...

(A) Login Shell A login shell is a shell where you login, either via the terminal or via SSH. If the user first logs in into a terminal session or SSH via authentication, such a shell session will be considered as a login shell. In other words, a login session is a...