Continuing with his Linux 101 series, Jack Wallen introduces you to the basics of task scheduling with cron.

If you're looking to automate tasks in Linux, cron is the tool to use. Find out how it's done here.

If I have stuff in cron.daily or .hourly or whatever how does it get scheduled? Do they run as soon as they can (like the daily at 0:00:01) or is there some randomness involved? I am concerned ...

Deno Cron jobs can perform actions such as updating state in Deno KV, pinging a website, sending email, initiating a database backup, and calling an API at regular intervals.