This question came to me from Rune (his question is edited for brevity): I’ve got a SLES 9.3 system where the users are using gzip to compress their daily online DB backups. It’s scripted, but basically it goes something like this: # dbbackup db1 /scratch/outputfile1 # gzip /scratch/outputfile1 # dbbackup db1 /scratch/outputfile2 # gzip /scratch/outputfile2 [...]
This is a follow-up to an older post about administering a Linux machine from Windows, that can be found here. So, you want to get remote desktop access to your Linux server’s GUI from a Windows machine. Well, NoMachine is a great way to do it. Assuming you have a working GUI on the Linux [...]
So you have a task that you want to run regularly on Linux/Unix. It could be a single commend, or a script that you prepared in advance that contains all the command you need run. What you need to do is to set up a “Cron job”. Cron is a system that, when the cron [...]
