Cron is a job scheduler that allows users to run commands periodically.
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Daily logRotate for apache at specific time
How can I execute logRotate daily at a specific time (3h30) each day? Specific details on how to do this would be appreciated.
I'm on Debian.
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fcron or followup on debian wheezy (stable)
I've been using fcron for a long time on debian linux.
In oldstable it is still existing fcron_oldstable.
So sad in the actual stable wheezy there is no fcron_stable.
Are there suggestions which cron ...
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Crontab + Ruby on Rails: /usr/bin/env: ruby: No such file or directory
I have a ruby on rails app and I need to schedule a crontab for a rake task.
*/5 * * * * RAILS_ENV=production /usr/local/bin/rake -f /usr/local/www/mysite-web-production/current/Rakefile ...
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Is there a update manager whitout gnome dependencies for xfce?
I'm looking a update manager for Debian Xfce. I installed xfce on a computer which will be use by laypersons. Therefore, I want another way (graphical) to launch apt-get update && apt-get ...
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output of top gets truncated to 80 columns when run by cron
I have got the following logging script:
#!/bin/bash
top -b -c -n 1 >> /var/log/toplog/top.log
And the following record in my crontab:
*/1 * * * * /home/clime/scripts/toplog.sh
The ...
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How to only output commands from CRON?
INPUT:
* * * * * ( /path/to/foo -x )
3 * * * * /full/path/tothing
3 3,2,4 * * * /full/path/tothing4 3
OUTPUT:
( /path/to/foo -x )
/full/path/tothing
/full/path/tothing4 3
Q: How can I truncate ...
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Globally change path for all users, even in cron
We're setting up an SGE cluster with CentOS 6. My sysadmin is installing applications that are not installed via RPM (i.e. via other means like make install) should go in a non-standard directory, in ...
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How to change cron shell (sh to bash)?
Is it possible to make commands in crontab run with bash instead of sh? I know you can pass commands to bash with -c, but that's annoying and I never use sh anyway.
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Rsync problem with cron and no problem manually
I have a backup.sh file that launch an rsync command. This rsync is to backup my dedicated server on a RaspberryPi running raspbian.
(I use keychain so I don't need to type any password etc ...)
The ...
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How can I manage my crontab effectively to avoid issue by multiple updates by multiple users?
I have a crontab many users update. The problem is that because of this, it is not easy to know who did what modification of a cronjob.
I was thinking to create a script to do a diff of the crontab ...
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Why are new cronjobs ignored unless crond is restarted in SLES?
I added a new cronjob with a user (SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9.4):
# su - XXX
$ crontab -e
and this is what I added:
* * * * * echo `date` >> /home/XXX/a.txt
but the a.txt isn't ...
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Cron Job Clean Directory
How is it possible to delete files older than 14 days in a folder using a cron job? Everything I have tried so far hasn't worked.
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cron: bash syntax not working
I am trying to add following command to crontab:
I=1; for X in $(/bin/ls -r /var/tmp/*); do [ $((I++)) -le 28 ] && echo "lower" || echo "higher"; done
When executed on the command line (in ...
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Logrotate doesnt start proftpd triggerd by cronjob
Im currently running of ideas. The proftpd doesn't restart, if logrotate is triggered by the cron task. Logrotate rotates all logfiles stops proftpd but does not start proftpd again.
If i force the ...
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Cronjob output to log
I'm using a script for testing broadband speed and I would like to set up a cronjob for testing every n minutes and output to a file.
The command to launch it from a shell console and append to ...
