http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron Cron enables users to schedule jobs (commands or shell scripts) to run automatically at a certain time or date >>>basiclly corn is used in axtu to run
/usr/share/axtu/tui/axtu-cl -d —random=150 -y at a certain interval of time >>> [root@dhcp17 etc]# rpm -qa|grep cron crontabs-1.10-8.noarch anacron-2.3-45.1AXS3.x86_64 vixie-cron-4.1-72AXS3.x86_64 lime-cron-0.9.12-1AXS3.x86_64 [root@dhcp17 etc]# rpm -ql crontabs-1.10-8.noarch /etc/cron.daily /etc/cron.hourly /etc/cron.monthly /etc/cron.weekly /etc/crontab /usr/bin/run-parts [root@dhcp17 etc]# cd /etc/cron.daily Now we see axtu,corn here >>>>>>>>
[root@dhcp17 ~]# ps aux | grep crond |
root 2251 0.0 0.0 75556 1132 ? Ss 01:24 0:00 crond root 5097 0.0 0.0 61928 712 pts/4 S+ 03:25 0:00 grep crond >>>>>>>>>>detailed usage go here http://www.unixgeeks.org/security/newbie/unix/cron-1.html ~