You often need a task to schedule in a Linux system so today we will learn How to Schedule a Task in Linux?
To schedule a task in Linux, you can use the cron daemon and the crontab command.
cron is a daemon that runs in the background and executes commands at specific intervals or dates. crontab is the command used to modify the cron daemon’s configuration?
To schedule a task using crontab, you will need to create a file called a “crontab file” that contains the commands you want to run and the schedule you want them to run on. You can then use the crontab command to install the crontab file and cron run the tasks according to the schedule you specified.
Here’s an example of how you can use crontab to schedule a task:
Open a terminal and type the following command to edit your crontab file: crontab -e
This will open the crontab file in a text editor. Add a line to the file with the following format: minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week command
The first five fields represent the schedule, and the sixth field is the command you want to run. For example, to run a command at 10:30 every day, you would enter the following line: 30 10 * * * command
Save and exit the text editor. cron will now run the command at the specified time.
You can use the crontab -l command to view your current crontab file, and the crontab -r command to remove it.
Note: If you are using a version of Linux that does not use cron, you may need to use a different tool to schedule tasks, such as at or systemd.
These cron commands will help you to set the task at the time you want. You can set daily, weekly, or hourly any type of corn using these commands.
The goal of this article is to show you how to install CloudPages on a DigitalOcean droplet. DigitalOcean is a cloud computing vendor that offers an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform for software developers. And CloudPages is a SaaS-based platform to manage and your WordPress site and web applications in an easy way.
To get started, you will need to buy a server from Digital Ocean, and then you will be able to deploy CloudPages on that server. I will show you step by step how to do both.
Step-1: Get Digital Ocean Server
If you do not already have an account on DigitalOcean, you can register for free, and if you do already have an account, click on the Sign In button to sign in.
To create a new server on the digital ocean, click the button in the top right corner.
On the Create tab, you will see a variety of options. Click on Droplets.
Create a server in this step.
Step-1: Choose an image
You must choose Ubuntu 20.04 LTS x64 in this section since CloudPages only works with Ubuntu.
Step-2: Choose a plan
The price of the plan will depend on the system specification, so choose a plan that you think will be best for your sites.
Step-3: Add block storage
For extra storage, you may choose this step if you wish.
Step-4: Choose a data center region
In this step, select location closest to your end-users
Step-5: VPC Network
Go with defaults in this section
Step-6: Select additional options
Go with defaults in this section
Step-7: Authentication
At the top, you will see a radio button for the SSH key and the password. Choose the SSH key, as it is more secure. The previously added SSH keys will now appear on your screen. You can select one or select all from here, and if you don’t want to add a key, click on the New SSH key button.
Alternatively, if you don’t have a key or don’t want to set up key-based authentication, you can select the password option.
Step-8: Finalize and create
In this step, leave these options as default and click on Create Droplet button.
By clicking on the Create Droplet button, you will be taken to the dashboard where a new droplet will be created. You can see your server is created and listed on the Dashboard once the process is complete.
Please note the IP Address of your droplet as this will be needed in the next step.
Step-2: Deploy CloudPages
To start, you’ll need to sign up for an account on CloudPages, if you do not already have one. If you already have an account, please click Login, on which you provide your credentials, and then click Sign In.
Once you have logged in, now follow the step-by-step procedure.
Step-1: Create a project
You will be redirected to the dashboard after logging in. On the top bar, click Create New Project.
Once you click the Create New Project button, you will be redirected to a page where an input box will ask for the Project Name.
Choose a name for your project and click on Create Project to move on.
If this is your first project, you will automatically get 7 days free trial, you can continue to deploy servers.
Step-2: Deploy Server
On the Dashboard page, select the project on which you want to deploy the server.
Then Click on Deploy Server on the sidebar.
Once you open the deploy server page you can see these 3 input boxes, provide the required data and click on Deploy Server.
Chose server type if you have LiteSpeed Enterprise license then chose that one otherwise chose OpenLiteSpeed
Provide your server name anything you want.
Provide Your server IP, this should be a valid public static IP.
After providing all the details click Deploy Now.
Step 3: Login to your server SSH as root
Log in to your server using SSH. This is the server on which you wish to deploy it. Must be logged in as root.
Then copy and paste this command into the terminal
The following installation process will be triggered in your browser using the command you pasted on the terminal.
After some time you can see CloudPages agent is successfully installed on your server.
Step 4 – Server Dashboard
Once your deployment is done you will be redirected to the server dashboard.
In this article, we are going to discuss four primary reasons behind the error ‘SSH Connection refused in DigitalOcean’ and how to fix those errors. SSH clients such as Putty and OpenSSH are used to manage remote Linux servers with SSH installed on them, but sometimes users get a particular error such as ‘SSH connection refused’ in the DigitalOcean Droplets.
If you are looking for managed service you can visit our DigitalOcean Cloud Plans, where we do everything for you and let you run your business with ease. Continue reading…
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