Scheduler in Linux to check from database

[pu8y]

Hi All,

I am a newbie to Linux.

I have some ideas in my mind but I have no idea whether I can implement it on Linux or not.

I need to have a program that running on Linux pc that can run automatically everyday to check from a database table to see whether any services have reached their due date. If yes, this program need to send an email as a notification to the person-in-charge; if not, just exit the program and wait for the next run on tomorrow.

As I know, cron is program similar to task scheduler in Windows. May I know whether I can make this scheduled job happen in Linux? and how to make it?

Thanks.

[denarced]

Cron would be a way to start the script that would then check the database and send emails if necessary. This is definitely possible but how to do it ; that'll depend on what kind of database we're talking about ?