cron jobs made easy

In rails applications, we often need to handle periodical / repetitive tasks. The most common way to implement this in Unix like environments is by using Cron, a time based job scheduler. Cron enables users to schedule jobs and run them periodically driven by a crontab (cron table) file. Inspite of the ubiquity of cron … Continue reading →

Running windows applications on linux

When i started transitioning from windows to linux a few years ago, i used to have many doubts in my mind. I used to wonder what software to use for common tasks. Then i came across osalt which answered most of my questions.In that site, you can enter the name of the windows application and … Continue reading →

Unix tips | Part 1

I would like to share in this series of posts all the interesting tips in UNIX i’ve came across till date. To understand read, write, execute permissions for a file The first letter – stands for a normal file, d for directory, c or b for a device, l for a link to another file. … Continue reading →