I.T.'s Cron!
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Bonus Among Us
100

This is when will the following cron schedules run?

*/10 * * * *

What is At every 10th minute.

100

This hypothetical cron job does this

What is run a script that adds up all the sales for the work day. 

100

 shebang #! is this 

What is, it is the commented file declaration at the top of a shell script. 

100

The -x option modifies the tar command to do this

What is extract an archive! 

100

Why is the -f option used in almost every tar operation?

The -f option lets you designate a tar file to either create or extract or list from.

200


What event is the following cron a minute away from?

59 23 31 12 *

What is New Years!

200

This hypothetical cron job does this

@weekly /home/sysadmin/Scripts/auto-update.sh

What is a weekly automated system update. 

200

Daily Double!!!!!!!!!!

These  two characters should come before the filename of a script 

What is ./

200

If a directory has ten files and the following command is used in it, how many files are being archived?

  • tar cvvWf backups/archive.tar .

What is Zero, because tar doesn’t compress!! But all files should be archived as they're all in the current directory! 

200

Daily Triple!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Run: sudo crontab -e will open this users crontab

Who is the root!

300

5 4 * * *

What is "At 04:05"

300

* 2,4 * * *

What is "at every minute past hour 2 and 4"

300

Jane's script has user and group ownership of a script with -rw-r--r-- permissions, but she cannot get it to run. What must she do to the file before it will run?

What is Run chmod +x on her file! 

300

Daily Double!!!!!!!!!!

This option prints the full file specification of files as you interact with them 

What is -vv

300

To set a level 0 incremental backup using the "tar" command in Linux, use this flag

That is "--create"

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