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tracking crontab changes with git
I would like to use git to track changes in crontab.
I have initialized a new git repository in /var/spool/cron/crontabs/
Now the problem is, when crontab is saved, the second line of the header ...
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Git add, commit, push from bash script
I'm trying to write a simple cron job that will keep my org-mode files in sync with a GitHub repo by committing every now and then. For some reason, it always manages to commit the files, but even ...
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unable to execute git pull if the script is executed on reboot
I have created the following script:
#!/bin/bash
cd /home/pi/workspace/my-app
/usr/bin/git pull
python3 main.py &
If I run the script from the console, git pull is executed as expected and then ...
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Crontab shell script git pull and forever start
I'm trying to set up a Raspberry Pi to check a repo on startup and then fire up a node script with forever.
I got the second part working, but I tried a dozen git commands with no success.
Here is ...
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Is it possible to store user's crontab in user's git repository on OpenBSD?
On OpenBSD and with OpenBSD's cron and crontab, is it possible to store the crontab(5) of a user in a git repository of the same user?
What would be the proper way to accomplish something like this?
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Cron job not behaving as expected
So I have a python script that pulls down git/svn/p4 repositories and does some writing to a database.
I'm simply trying to automate the running of this script and based from what I see in syslog it ...
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Fetching all Git repositories in the background
I'm thinking about setting up a cronjob for fetching all my repositories every once in a while, to have the current status ready in case I'm offline. Something like the following (wrapped for better ...
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Crontab with Github
I want to be able to push a repository to Github at midnight, every night. I know that Github isn't a back-up service, and, in no way am I expecting it to be this - I just want the best up-to-date ...
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Mail cron output only when Git throws a real error
There exists a Git repo that is on one server, we want to generate doxygen output for it on a different server. The following command works for me but has the downside of sending a mail everytime the ...
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Crontab with SVN and Git
I have some repos which are both in SVN and Git. My username is guyfawkes, and in my home directory I have folder www which contains all my repos. In this directory I also have file update.sh:
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