>On Thu, 28 Sep 2023 20:58:41 -0700 >wes <[email protected]> dijo: > >>On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 6:21 PM John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> >>wrote: >>> >I don't know where those distros keep cron files.
>>they are kept in /var/spool/cron. >>But, look first at >>these are different from crontab. each has its own strengths and >>weaknesses. >There is a /var/spool/crontabs folder in Xubuntu's /, but it is empty. >And I read about anacron and a couple more, but what I did before >worked well. I have it on tomorrow's to-do list to reboot to Xubuntu, >go to crontab -e, copy my jobs to a text file, and get back to Sparky. >In theory that's all I need to do. Well, that didn't come out well. In Xubuntu I did 'sudo crontab -e,' and it had one small job: a monthly reminder to pay my T-Mobile bill, The daily jobs to back up /home and / were nowhere to be seen. There was also nothing in anacron. Yet, in Xubuntu /home and / were getting backed up every night, and there was another daily cron job to pop up a message with the date and rsync exit code. In Xubuntu every morning that message was on the middle of my screen. But right now I have no idea what was making the rsync scripts run in Xubuntu. Sparky's crontab is empty, so I can paste in the T-Mobile job from Xubuntu, but it looks like I'll have to rewrite the two backup jobs and the job to pop up the rsync exit codes. The scripts are here and they run fine when I run them manually. I remember writing these jobs in Xubuntu's crontab a couple years ago. What happened to them? And if the jobs are no longer in Xubuntru's crontab, why are they still running?
