Week 10b: Cron Scheduling & Security Maintenance Automation
Goal Master cron scheduling for security automation, build security maintenance scripts, and create a complete automated security workflow suite. Prerequisites: Week 10a (Bash Scripting & GPG Automation) This is Part 2 of 2 - Covers scheduling and complete automation workflows. 1. Cron Jobs for Automation Understanding Cron Syntax # ┌───────────── minute (0-59) # │ ┌─────────── hour (0-23) # │ │ ┌───────── day of month (1-31) # │ │ │ ┌─────── month (1-12) # │ │ │ │ ┌───── day of week (0-7, Sunday = 0 or 7) # │ │ │ │ │ # * * * * * command to execute Examples: ...