Question

1. What is some common administrative tasks that could be automated by using either the at or cron daemons. Do You think OSes such as Microsoft Windows provide the same functionality? Do you know Why is the ability to schedule tasks critical for system administrators?  

2. what do you think about the overall stability of a Linux system compares with previous experiences with Windows?

Answer 1

Hello please find the below explanation for the asked questions.

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Solution 1:

There are many such administrative tasks that can be automated by using cron daemons. These task can be following:

(i) Scan for the viruses or unwanted malawres

(ii) security scan can be performed

(iii) Disk free or usage scan be performed

(iv) Time to time cleaning of data or file transfers to cloud

(v) system performance monitoring

(vi) Reboot of system

These all administrative task can be automated using cron daemons.

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And in windows there is also exists cron like functionality. In windows it is called as "Task Scheduler". We can schedule task in windows by using below steps:

1. Make sure you logged on as an administrator or you have the same access as an administrator.
2. Go to Start -> Control Panel -> System and Security -> Administrative Tools -> Task Scheduler
3. Action -> Create Basic Task -> Type a name and Click Next
4. Follow through the wizard.

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The ability to schedule tasks is critical for system admin. It is true, because although sysadmin is familier with lot of things like network operations, server management, maintanance and repair. But he may not be familier with other task like database operations, code or data cleaning operations, cloud transfer operations etc. Hence, it is critical for system administrator for scheduling tasks.

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Solution 2:

At this digital time, what is more important for a guy is security of his data, his privacy, and reliability. Since, Linux is an open source and windows is not. Hence, there are multiple releases of linux are there in a short span of time. They are having more bug fixes everytime. While, when we see windows on the other hand, they crashes some time. And it is not easy to handle security in windows.

Hence we can say that linux is more stable than windows.

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