Unix® System Management Primer Plus

Summary

System administrators need to take advantage of every opportunity to automate daily tasks so they can devote time to more meaningful responsibilities, such as capacity planning, researching new technologies, and reading books like this one. Developers have written many automation tools for use on Unix systems, including those used for scheduling, file synchronization, configuration, and temporary space management. Some tools, like the scheduling programs at and cron, and the Berkeley r-commands are available on every Unix system, while others need to be downloaded and installed separately. In this chapter, you learned about some of the most useful and widely used automation tools—those specific to certain tasks, such as copying files ...