Schedule a Nightly Cron Job — hands-on lab

Schedule a Nightly Cron Job

easy 10 XP ~5 minHands-on lab

The cleanup script /srv/lab/bin/ledgerd-cleanup must run every night, under the account that owns the data.

Task

Install a cron job in the personal crontab of user nina.
It must run /srv/lab/bin/ledgerd-cleanup every day at 4:45 (24-hour clock).
Do not add it to /etc/crontab or /etc/cron.d.

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Ubuntu 24.04 with no internet access. You are student with passwordless sudo. The grader checks the final state of the machine, not the commands you typed. Values like names and ports are generated for you.

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