Match each term with the correct statement below.
-The location of user cron tables.
A)cron daemon
B)program
C)/var/spool/cron
D)trapping
E)PPID
F)PID
G)/etc/crontab
H)/var/spool/at
I)at daemon

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/var/spool/cron is the location of user cron tables.

Answer: A
 cron daemon is the program that executes scheduled commands.

Answer: G
 /etc/crontab is the system-wide crontab file that contains commands to be executed by the cron daemon.

Answer: D
 Trapping is a mechanism that allows a program to intercept and handle signals sent by the operating system.

Answer: F
 PID is the process ID, a numerical identifier assigned by the operating system to an executing process.

Answer: E
 PPID is the parent process ID, the ID of the process that launched another process.

Answer: H
 /var/spool/at is the location where at daemon stores commands that are scheduled to be executed at a later time.

Answer: I
 at daemon is the program that executes commands that were scheduled using the at command.

Match Each Term with the Correct Statement Below