An administrator is troubleshooting a cron job that runs at 2:30 AM but should run at 2:30 PM. The crontab entry is: 30 2 * * * /path/to/script. What is the correct fix?

Add a PM indicator to the hour field

Change the day of week field to 14

A user named 'alice' reports that when she runs crontab -e, she receives the error 'you are not allowed to use cron'. The system has no /etc/cron.allow file. What is the most likely cause?

Alice's crontab file is corrupted.

The cron daemon is not running.

The /etc/cron.deny file contains 'alice'.

Alice's account is locked or expired.

A system administrator wants to add a job that runs as the 'www' user every weekday at 2:30 AM. The job must be visible to all administrators and survive a system reboot. Where should this job be defined?

In /etc/periodic.conf with a custom daily script

In the root user's crontab using crontab -e

In the www user's crontab using crontab -e -u www

In /etc/crontab with the user field set to www

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713.2 Automate System Administration Tasks by Scheduling Jobs (weight: 2) BSD-SPECIALIST Practice Questions (Page 2)

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An administrator is troubleshooting a cron job that runs at 2:30 AM but should run at 2:30 PM. The crontab entry is: 30 2 * * * /path/to/script. What is the correct fix?
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Which file is the primary configuration file for controlling which periodic system scripts run on a FreeBSD system?
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A user named 'alice' reports that when she runs crontab -e, she receives the error 'you are not allowed to use cron'. The system has no /etc/cron.allow file. What is the most likely cause?
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Which file is the system crontab on a FreeBSD system?
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A system administrator wants to add a job that runs as the 'www' user every weekday at 2:30 AM. The job must be visible to all administrators and survive a system reboot. Where should this job be defined?
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Questions 6–10

An administrator is troubleshooting a cron job that runs at 2:30 AM but should run at 2:30 PM. The crontab entry is: 30 2 * * * /path/to/script. What is the correct fix?

Which file is the primary configuration file for controlling which periodic system scripts run on a FreeBSD system?

A user named 'alice' reports that when she runs crontab -e, she receives the error 'you are not allowed to use cron'. The system has no /etc/cron.allow file. What is the most likely cause?

Which file is the system crontab on a FreeBSD system?

A system administrator wants to add a job that runs as the 'www' user every weekday at 2:30 AM. The job must be visible to all administrators and survive a system reboot. Where should this job be defined?

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