Re: Sound cron job delayed while VLC running

On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 14:21:02 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 08:13:24PM +0200, Holger Nessen wrote: > > I'am not sure which sound backend you are using. > > As far as I can remember, ALSA didn't allow multiple processes to > > output sound at the same time. > > Depends on

Re: Sound cron job delayed while VLC running

On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 08:13:24PM +0200, Holger Nessen wrote: > I'am not sure which sound backend you are using. > As far as I can remember, ALSA didn't allow multiple processes to > output sound at the same time. Depends on the hardware. If the hardware allows mixing natively, then you can

Re: Sound cron job delayed while VLC running

. Best Regards, Holger Am Fri, 8 Jun 2018 16:33:45 +0200 (CEST) schrieb Roger Price : > For nearly 20 years, I have had a cron job in which a dog (yes, it's > Biff) barks the hours. The lines in /etc/crontab are > > 0 0,12 * * * rprice /mnt/home/rprice/bark/bark.sh 12 >

Re: Sound cron job delayed while VLC running

On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 16:33:45 +0200 (CEST) Roger Price wrote: > For nearly 20 years, I have had a cron job in which a dog (yes, it's Biff) > barks > the hours. The lines in /etc/crontab are > > 0 0,12 * * * rprice /mnt/home/rprice/bark/bark.sh 12 > ... > 0

Sound cron job delayed while VLC running

For nearly 20 years, I have had a cron job in which a dog (yes, it's Biff) barks the hours. The lines in /etc/crontab are 0 0,12 * * * rprice /mnt/home/rprice/bark/bark.sh 12 ... 0 11,23 * * * rprice /mnt/home/rprice/bark/bark.sh 11 In the bark.sh script, the sound is produced

Re: Weird shell script behavior in a cron job

On 31 August 2017 at 04:32, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > > I added a line to echo $SHELL to my debugging log file, and > that was it: if I ran it from cron, $SHELL was /bin/sh; if I ran it from a > command line, $SHELL was /bin/bash. Be careful to correctly understand

Re: Weird shell script behavior in a cron job

On 8/31/17, 5:16 AM, Reco wrote: $ bash -c 'cd foo; echo $?' bash: line 0: cd: foo: No such file or directory 1 To this: $ dash -c 'cd foo; echo $?' dash: 1: cd: can't cd to foo 2 Aha! That's what it was! Thanks! At any rate, changing the test script's utterly nonspecific shebang (that, I

Re: Weird shell script behavior in a cron job

Hi. On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 08:03:51AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 06:52:28AM +0100, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > > James H. H. Lampert: > > > > > Could it be that |cron| is running it an entirely different shell, that > > > doesn't understand the |if|

Re: Weird shell script behavior in a cron job

On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 06:52:28AM +0100, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > James H. H. Lampert: > > > Could it be that |cron| is running it an entirely different shell, that > > doesn't understand the |if| statement? > > > Despite what others have said, the answer to this question is no.

Re: Weird shell script behavior in a cron job

James H. H. Lampert: Could it be that |cron| is running it an entirely different shell, that doesn't understand the |if| statement? Despite what others have said, the answer to this question is no. Whilst you /are/ running two different shells, the problem is not the |if| statement. Both

Re: Weird shell script behavior in a cron job

On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 09:32:37PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > > #! > > A curious shebang. > > Why would the behavior be any different? Could it be that cron is running it > > an entirely different shell, that doesn't understand the "if" statement? > > Presumably your script runs via /bin/bash in

Re: Weird shell script behavior in a cron job

On Wed 30 Aug 2017 at 11:07:36 (-0700), James H. H. Lampert wrote: > Can somebody explain this: > > My backup script WILL detect that ExternalHD is not mounted, and > attempt to mount it, if I run it manually. > > But it WON'T do that if it runs in a cron job. > > I'

Re: Weird shell script behavior in a cron job

A few minutes ago, with respect to my backup script attempting to mount ExternalHD if run from a command line, but not from cron, I wrote: Why would the behavior be any different? Could it be that cron is running it an entirely different shell, that doesn't understand the "if" statement? That

Re: Weird shell script behavior in a cron job

Hi. On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 11:07:36AM -0700, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > Can somebody explain this: > > My backup script WILL detect that ExternalHD is not mounted, and attempt to > mount it, if I run it manually. > > But it WON'T do that if it runs in a cron job.

Weird shell script behavior in a cron job

Can somebody explain this: My backup script WILL detect that ExternalHD is not mounted, and attempt to mount it, if I run it manually. But it WON'T do that if it runs in a cron job. I've isolated the relevant code into its own script, added debugging output, and set it up to run every

Re: cron job not executing

On Sat, 05 May 2012 18:26:30 -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: I've got a little cron job, just trying to fire off a script (see http://tonyb.us/mattbot ) and it's not firing. I have other jobs on the same crontab that do. When I run the script manually, it runs. (...) Here is a good collection

Re: cron job not executing

=?iso-8859-1?q?Camale=F3n?= writes: Here is a good collection of the common reasons why a cron job does not engage: http://askubuntu.com/questions/23009/reasons-why-crontab-does-not-work One thing you can do is to set an at job to run your script once. Go to the directory you want

Re: cron job not executing

On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 02:07:08AM +0300, Adrian Fita wrote: On 06/05/12 01:26, Tony Baldwin wrote: I've got a little cron job, just trying to fire off a script (see http://tonyb.us/mattbot ) and it's not firing. [...] Probably something really obvious I'm overlooking, but the more

Re: cron job not executing

On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 11:24:44AM +, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 05 May 2012 18:26:30 -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: I've got a little cron job, just trying to fire off a script (see http://tonyb.us/mattbot ) and it's not firing. I have other jobs on the same crontab that do. When I run

cron job not executing

I've got a little cron job, just trying to fire off a script (see http://tonyb.us/mattbot ) and it's not firing. I have other jobs on the same crontab that do. When I run the script manually, it runs. I've tried, in my user crontab 0 * * * * /path/to/script or @hourly /path/to/script or 0

Re: cron job not executing

On 06/05/12 01:26, Tony Baldwin wrote: I've got a little cron job, just trying to fire off a script (see http://tonyb.us/mattbot ) and it's not firing. [...] Probably something really obvious I'm overlooking, but the more I look, the less I see why there's a problem. any and all

Re: cron job not executing

On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Tony Baldwin t...@tonybaldwin.org wrote: I've got a little cron job, just trying to fire off a script (see http://tonyb.us/mattbot ) and it's not firing. I have other jobs on the same crontab that do. When I run the script manually, it runs. [...] Probably

How often will this cron job execute

Hi, I've got the following entry in my cron job: 1 1 1 */2 * me my-this-job How often will it execute? Checking the log, I notice that it run on Jan 1 and Mar 1. That's really not something that I've been expecting for. I have another cron job fired at Feb 1, so no doubt that my cron

Re: How often will this cron job execute

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:32 PM, T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com wrote: I've got the following entry in my cron job: 1 1 1 */2 * me my-this-job How often will it execute? Checking the log, I notice that it run on Jan 1 and Mar 1. That's really not something that I've been expecting for. I

Re: cron job mergelog failure

the MY.log file. I will try with the fully path and see happens tonight. Your first cron job: 0 1 * * * mergelog /var/log/apache2/access.log /var/log/apache2/other_vhosts_access.log /var/log/apache2/my.log MY.log This does not run with /var/log/apache2/ as $PWD, so MY.log won't

Re: cron job mergelog failure

On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 01:27 -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: I have the following in my root crontab on my webserver: 0 1 * * * mergelog /var/log/apache2/access.log /var/log/apache2/other_vhosts_access.log /var/log/apache2/my.log MY.log 4 2 1 * * * mv /var/log/apache2/MY.log

Re: cron job mergelog failure

Tony Baldwin t...@tonybaldwin.org wrote: 0 1 * * * mergelog /var/log/apache2/access.log [...] Every day I get an e-mail telling me this failed. Now, I can go in and to this manually, Why can't cron do it without my intervention? What reason does the email give for the failure? Chris --

Re: cron job mergelog failure

On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 09:18:32AM +, Chris Davies wrote: Tony Baldwin t...@tonybaldwin.org wrote: 0 1 * * * mergelog /var/log/apache2/access.log [...] Every day I get an e-mail telling me this failed. Now, I can go in and to this manually, Why can't cron do it without my

Re: cron job mergelog failure

the email give for the failure? Chris mv: cannot stat `/var/log/apache2/MY.log': No such file or directory Clearly not merging logs and creating the MY.log file. I will try with the fully path and see happens tonight. Your first cron job: 0 1 * * * mergelog /var/log/apache2/access.log /var/log

Re: cron job mergelog failure

. Your first cron job: 0 1 * * * mergelog /var/log/apache2/access.log /var/log/apache2/other_vhosts_access.log /var/log/apache2/my.log MY.log This does not run with /var/log/apache2/ as $PWD, so MY.log won't be created in that directory. Try being explicit about the path to MY.log, e.g

cron job mergelog failure

I have the following in my root crontab on my webserver: 0 1 * * * mergelog /var/log/apache2/access.log /var/log/apache2/other_vhosts_access.log /var/log/apache2/my.log MY.log 4 2 1 * * * mv /var/log/apache2/MY.log /var/log/apache2/my.log 5 5 1 * * * webalizer Every day I get an e-mail

Re: Cron job

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net writes: Finally, while you currently make your order via phone, it may be that your distributor has a more easily automated method, so it may be worth talking to their customer support and exploring the other ordering options. LOL :) -- Burton

RE: Cron job

Thanks but how did you make the shell script? Please post contents to list. Thanks. Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 00:57:22 +0400 Subject: Re: Cron job From: eero.voloti...@iki.fi To: debiantux...@hotmail.com CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org 2010/8/20 Poo Py debiantux...@hotmail.com: Hi I'm

Re: Cron job

, Poo Py wrote: Hi I'm tired of [...] ordering horny goat weed every week manually so can someone please make a [...] cron job to do this for me? You'll have to better describe how you order horny goat weed in order for me to write a script that does it for you. Computers are very good

Re: Cron job

2010/8/20 Poo Py debiantux...@hotmail.com: Hi I'm tired of fucking ordering horny goat weed every week manually so can someone please make a fucking cron job to do this for me? Many thanks and god bless your kind souls. crontab -e and: @weekly /path/to/order_horny_goat_weed.sh -- Eero

Re: Shutdown problem -- cron job related?

At certain times, seems Friday noontime, I am unable to shutdown the system. Instead of the usual scripts to killing all processes, unmounting everything and will now halt, goodby, I get: process running pstree (or something like that) shutdown aborted At this point, the system (or at

Re: Shutdown problem -- cron job related?

On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 18:42, David Baron d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: At certain times, seems Friday noontime, I am unable to shutdown the system. Instead of the usual scripts to killing all processes, unmounting everything and will now halt, goodby, I get: process running pstree (or

Shutdown problem -- cron job related?

At certain times, seems Friday noontime, I am unable to shutdown the system. Instead of the usual scripts to killing all processes, unmounting everything and will now halt, goodby, I get: process running pstree (or something like that) shutdown aborted At this point, the system (or at least

Re: Shutdown problem -- cron job related?

On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 01:22, David Baron d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: At certain times, seems Friday noontime, I am unable to shutdown the system. Instead of the usual scripts to killing all processes, unmounting everything and will now halt, goodby, I get: process running pstree (or

Re: Shutdown problem -- cron job related

At certain times, seems Friday noontime, I am unable to shutdown the system. Instead of the usual scripts to killing all processes, unmounting everything and will now halt, goodby, I get: process running pstree (or something like that) shutdown aborted At this point, the system (or at

Re: Awstats Cron job not executing [SOLVED]

Actually the log file itself doesn't need the execute permission. You need that on directory you want to access a file from. On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Kushal Koolwal kushalkool...@hotmail.com wrote:  20091027035155.gb5...@localhost.localdomain Content-Type: text/plain;

RE: Awstats Cron job not executing [SOLVED]

87a8dc10910270120y754f590es1019c2bbb76e8...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 You are right only the apache2 directly needs execute permission and not = the files inside it. #chmod 755 /var/log/apache2

Awstats Cron job not executing

/awstats.pl -config=mydomain -update/dev/null The Syslog shows that the above job is being executed but my webpage stats (http://mydomain/awstats/awstats.pl) do NOT get updated. However if I change the awstats cron job to be executed by root like this: 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * root [ -x /usr/lib/cgi

Re: Awstats Cron job not executing

/awstats.conf -a -r /var/log/apache2/access.log ] /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=mydomain -update/dev/null The Syslog shows that the above job is being executed but my webpage stats (http://mydomain/awstats/awstats.pl) do NOT get updated. However if I change the awstats cron job

RE: Awstats Cron job not executing

20091027012939.ga19...@localhost.localdomain Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Try becoming the www-data user and trying the above line from the command line directly? perhaps you'll get some helpful output.

Re: Awstats Cron job not executing

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 07:08:04PM -0700, Kushal Koolwal wrote: 20091027012939.ga19...@localhost.localdomain Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Try becoming the www-data user and trying the above line from the

RE: Awstats Cron job not executing [SOLVED]

20091027035155.gb5...@localhost.localdomain Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Ahhh I finally resolved it. chmod 755 -R /var/log/apache2/* did the trick. It's funny that it needs execute permission also. No where i= n

Re: Awstats Cron job not executing

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Andrew Sackville-West and...@farwestbilliards.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 07:08:04PM -0700, Kushal Koolwal wrote:  20091027012939.ga19...@localhost.localdomain Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Command line question involving webmin cron job;

I have been experimenting a bit and have tried this command line for upgrading my system; apt-get -y update; apt-get -y upgrade It works fine if issued from a root terminal. However as a command line issued as 'root' from webmin it fails with this error; -

Re: Command line question involving webmin cron job;

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:24:31AM -0500, John W Foster wrote: I have been experimenting a bit and have tried this command line for upgrading my system; apt-get -y update; apt-get -y upgrade It works fine if issued from a root terminal. However as a command line issued as 'root' from

Re: creating and logging a daily cron job

On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 19:45 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri,17.Oct.08, 18:10:26, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: this doesn't seem to be true the job runs and produces output and root mail is (via /etc/aliases - thanks to Doug!) sent to me but yet I don't get any o/p from

Re: creating and logging a daily cron job

On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:10:01 +0200, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: On Fri,17.Oct.08, 18:10:26, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: this doesn't seem to be true the job runs and produces output and root mail is (via /etc/aliases - thanks to Doug!) sent to me but yet I don't get any o/p from /etc/cron.daily

Re: creating and logging a daily cron job

On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 14:18 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: On Tuesday, 14.10.2008 at 13:22 +0100, michael wrote: If I wish to have, say, a backup script running daily by the system (ie with su privileges) and to have access to any std out/err output what's the recommended Debian way to do so?

Re: creating and logging a daily cron job

michael wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 14:18 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: On Tuesday, 14.10.2008 at 13:22 +0100, michael wrote: If I wish to have, say, a backup script running daily by the system (ie with su privileges) and to have access to any std out/err output what's the recommended

Re: creating and logging a daily cron job

On Fri,17.Oct.08, 18:10:26, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: this doesn't seem to be true the job runs and produces output and root mail is (via /etc/aliases - thanks to Doug!) sent to me but yet I don't get any o/p from /etc/cron.daily jobs whereas I do from all my crontab jobs... I think

Re: creating and logging a daily cron job

Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri,17.Oct.08, 18:10:26, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: this doesn't seem to be true the job runs and produces output and root mail is (via /etc/aliases - thanks to Doug!) sent to me but yet I don't get any o/p from /etc/cron.daily jobs whereas I do from all my

creating and logging a daily cron job

If I wish to have, say, a backup script running daily by the system (ie with su privileges) and to have access to any std out/err output what's the recommended Debian way to do so? I've tried a) create $HOME/bin/backup.sh script b) sudo ln -is $HOME/bin/backup.sh /etc/cron.daily and it appears

Re: creating and logging a daily cron job

On Tuesday, 14.10.2008 at 13:22 +0100, michael wrote: If I wish to have, say, a backup script running daily by the system (ie with su privileges) and to have access to any std out/err output what's the recommended Debian way to do so? I've tried a) create $HOME/bin/backup.sh script b)

Re: creating and logging a daily cron job

On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 14:18 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: On Tuesday, 14.10.2008 at 13:22 +0100, michael wrote: If I wish to have, say, a backup script running daily by the system (ie with su privileges) and to have access to any std out/err output what's the recommended Debian way to do so?

Re: creating and logging a daily cron job

On Tue Oct 14, 2008 at 14:55:15 +0100, michael wrote: ratty:~# ls /var/mail mail michael ratty:~# You might find that /var/mail/mail is mail for the root user. Steve -- Managed Anti-Spam Service http://mail-scanning.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: creating and logging a daily cron job

On Tuesday, 14.10.2008 at 14:55 +0100, michael wrote: I suggest writing/rewriting backup.sh so that it writes its output to well-defined files, rather than relying on the behaviour of standard output/error. I thought about this but presumed if there was an already set-up mechanism for

Re: creating and logging a daily cron job

On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 14:57 +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: On Tue Oct 14, 2008 at 14:55:15 +0100, michael wrote: ratty:~# ls /var/mail mail michael ratty:~# You might find that /var/mail/mail is mail for the root user. Steve well I did check it ;) but it didn't have a recent

Re: creating and logging a daily cron job

On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 14:59 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: On Tuesday, 14.10.2008 at 14:55 +0100, michael wrote: I suggest writing/rewriting backup.sh so that it writes its output to well-defined files, rather than relying on the behaviour of standard output/error. I thought about this

Re: creating and logging a daily cron job

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 02:55:15PM +0100, michael wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 14:18 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: On Tuesday, 14.10.2008 at 13:22 +0100, michael wrote: I think the standard output for jobs run out of cron.daily will typically go to root's mailbox. Well, root seems not to have

Question about cron job

Hi, Is there any utility that can help me to check the cron jobs that are currently running under Linux? If there is one, would you please kindly let me know? Thanks, Pete

Re: Question about cron job

Le Friday 04 April 2008 11:53:48 Pete Kay, vous avez écrit : Hi, Is there any utility that can help me to check the cron jobs that are currently running under Linux? If there is one, would you please kindly let me know? If you mean the jobs which are effectively running, any process viewer

Re: Cron job not cooperating

Tom Scrape wrote: My /etc/cron.daily contains the problem file: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/cron.daily# ll pflogsumm-daily.cron -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 354 2007-06-06 08:49 pflogsumm-daily.cron Cron.log shows nothing: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log# cat cron.log |grep pflogsumm [EMAIL

RE: Cron job not cooperating

-Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 1:32 AM Tom Scrape wrote: Cron.log shows nothing: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log# cat cron.log |grep pflogsumm [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log# Err... The program is not executed by cron but by run-parts (which is executed by cron,

Re: Cron job not cooperating

Tom Scrape wrote: Is there a location (eg. log file) where run-parts activity can be found? Or is it rather just hit-and-miss debugging when trying to figure out a problem? Output is normally not generated. It's only generated in case of an error. Since it is executed by cron (==

Cron job not cooperating

I have a cron job that's not running when I think it should be... that is, it's not running at all. My /etc/cron.daily contains the problem file: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/cron.daily# ll pflogsumm-daily.cron -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 354 2007-06-06 08:49 pflogsumm-daily.cron This file contains: [EMAIL

Re: Cron job not cooperating

On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Tom Scrape wrote: I have a cron job that's not running when I think it should be... that is, it's not running at all. My /etc/cron.daily contains the problem file: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/cron.daily# ll pflogsumm-daily.cron -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 354 2007-06-06 08:49

RE: Cron job not cooperating

-Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 10:40 AM On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Tom Scrape wrote: I have a cron job that's not running when I think it should be... that is, it's not running at all. My /etc/cron.daily contains the problem file: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc

Re: updatedb cron job never finishes

On 5/29/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 09:42:30AM -0700, Jason Dunsmore wrote: Whenever updatedb runs via cron, it goes to sleep and never finishes the job, leaving all these processes running: 29519 ?S 0:00 /USR/SBIN/CRON 29520 ?

updatedb cron job never finishes

Hi, Whenever updatedb runs via cron, it goes to sleep and never finishes the job, leaving all these processes running: 29519 ?S 0:00 /USR/SBIN/CRON 29520 ?Ss 0:00 /bin/sh -c test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / run 29521 ?S 0:00 /bin/sh -c test -x

Re: updatedb cron job never finishes

On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 09:42:30AM -0700, Jason Dunsmore wrote: Whenever updatedb runs via cron, it goes to sleep and never finishes the job, leaving all these processes running: 29519 ?S 0:00 /USR/SBIN/CRON 29520 ?Ss 0:00 /bin/sh -c test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || (

Re: ddclient cron job

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:59:18 -0400 Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 10:31:07PM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:37:29 -0400 Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get ddclient to run as a cronjob [...] Just invoke

Re: ddclient cron job

On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 01:41:22AM -0400, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:37:29 -0400 Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know ddclient can run as a daemon, but most of the time that daemon doesn't work and I end up just having to run ddclient manually myself. I'd just like

Re: ddclient cron job

On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 08:11:43AM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:59:18 -0400 Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 10:31:07PM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:37:29 -0400 Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm

ddclient cron job

I'm trying to get ddclient to run as a cronjob, but before I do it I was wondering if it is not safe to do this. I normally run under a user account (And not root), and ddclient can't be run by anyone but the owner (It won't let you run it, even if you have group access; /etc/ddclient.conf must

Re: ddclient cron job

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:37:29 -0400 Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get ddclient to run as a cronjob, but before I do it I was wondering if it is not safe to do this. I normally run under a user account (And not root), and ddclient can't be run by anyone but the owner

Re: ddclient cron job

On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 10:31:07PM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:37:29 -0400 Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get ddclient to run as a cronjob [...] Just invoke ddclient from a script in one of the directories mentioned in /etc/crontab. Your

Re: ddclient cron job

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:37:29 -0400 Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I know ddclient can run as a daemon, but most of the time that daemon doesn't work and I end up just having to run ddclient manually myself. I'd just like to be able to set it as a cronjob, if that's possible.

Re: Running QEMU from a cron job

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nate Bargmann wrote: I am wanting to restart a QEMU virtual machine from a cron entry, let the VM do something, and then after a period of time freeze the VM until the next day. After reading the docs and browsing the Web for a few days, I'm not

Re: Running QEMU from a cron job

On Friday 23 February 2007 07:00, Linas Žvirblis wrote: And do not forget that QEMU is mostly a GUI application, so you will probably need to run xorg. You can run qemu headless, with a virtual framebuffer. Makes for a virtual machine you connect to via VNC to view. -- Joshua Kugler

Re: Running QEMU from a cron job

* Linas ??virblis [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007 Feb 23 10:01 -0600]: A much simpler solution would be to have QEMU started by cron, and set up the guest OS to shut down after doing something. Or you could run QEMU in snapshot mode and simply kill it, when not needed. Or... the possibilities are

Re: Running QEMU from a cron job

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nate Bargmann wrote: And do not forget that QEMU is mostly a GUI application, so you will probably need to run xorg. Thanks for pointing that out. That may be another area to work around as well. As Joshua Kugler already stated, you can run

Running QEMU from a cron job

I am wanting to restart a QEMU virtual machine from a cron entry, let the VM do something, and then after a period of time freeze the VM until the next day. After reading the docs and browsing the Web for a few days, I'm not so sure this is possible. Of course, much control is available

Cron-job

I have a php-site on which I want to send periodic mails out.I want cron to schedule that, but I don't know how to get cron tomanage that.I have my own Linux-box on which I put the linelynx http://blabla.com/mailscript.phpbut on my hosted webserver, there are obviously no lynx, cause it

Re: Cron-job

Hello Henning! I have a php-site on which I want to send periodic mails out. I want cron to schedule that, but I don't know how to get cron to manage that. I have my own Linux-box on which I put the line lynx http://blabla.com/mailscript.php but on my hosted webserver, there are obviously

Re: Cron-job

Example (which not works) index.php ?php // Read last timestamp $file_name = last_mail; $file = fopen($file_name, r+); $content = fread($file, filesize($filename)); $time = time(); if($file[0] = $time + $diff) { include

Re: Cron-job

On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Oliver Jato wrote: Example (which not works) index.php ?php // Read last timestamp $file_name = last_mail; $file = fopen($file_name, r+); $content = fread($file, filesize($filename)); $time = time(); if($file[0] = $time + $diff) {

Re: Frage zu Cron-Job und dist-upgrade

Jochen Heller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: man mag mir verzeihen, womöglich eine dumme Frage zu stellen. Bisher habe ich dist-upgrades lieber zu Fuß durchgeführt, aber mittlerweile, seit sarge schon so lange stable ist, erscheint es mir attraktiver dist-upgrades per cron-job durchführen zu lassen

Re: Frage zu Cron-Job und dist-upgrade

, erscheint es mir attraktiver dist-upgrades per cron-job durchführen zu lassen. Schlechte Idee. Du suchst apticron. Was kann apticron besser als cron-apt? Grüße Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber |Questions

Re: Frage zu Cron-Job und dist-upgrade

sarge schon so lange stable ist, erscheint es mir attraktiver dist-upgrades per cron-job durchführen zu lassen. Schlechte Idee. Du suchst apticron. Was kann apticron besser als cron-apt? Mir gefiehl die Ausgabe von apticron besser als die von cron-apt. S° -- Sven Hartge -- professioneller

Re: Frage zu Cron-Job und dist-upgrade

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:35:27 +0100, Sven Hartge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was kann apticron besser als cron-apt? Mir gefiehl die Ausgabe von apticron besser als die von cron-apt. Ich hab mir apticron eben mal angeschaut. Sieht mir alles insgesamt erheblich

Re: Frage zu Cron-Job und dist-upgrade

Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:35:27 +0100, Sven Hartge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was kann apticron besser als cron-apt? Mir gefiehl die Ausgabe von apticron besser als die von cron-apt. Ich hab mir apticron eben mal angeschaut.

Re: Cron Job jeden Tag frü her starten

Am 2005-11-24 13:29:01, schrieb Ante Damjanovic??: Hello, hab da ein kleines Problem mit cron. Ich möchte jeden Tag zu einer anderen Zeit einen Job startetn. Genauer gesagt an einen Tag um 18:00 am nächsten um 16:00 dann um 14:00 ... also jeden Tag um 2h früher, daher wiederholt sich der

Frage zu Cron-Job und dist-upgrade

Hallo ihr Lieben, man mag mir verzeihen, womöglich eine dumme Frage zu stellen. Bisher habe ich dist-upgrades lieber zu Fuß durchgeführt, aber mittlerweile, seit sarge schon so lange stable ist, erscheint es mir attraktiver dist-upgrades per cron-job durchführen zu lassen. Allerdings nehme

Re: Frage zu Cron-Job und dist-upgrade

-upgrades per cron-job durchführen zu lassen. gibts schon nimmste das packet cron-apt Allerdings nehme ich an, dass ich es dann wahrscheinlich mit der Option -y aufrufen lassen müsste? Weil er mich ja zuerst fragen wird, ob er die Pakete wirklich aktualisieren soll, sehe ich das richtig? das

Re: Frage zu Cron-Job und dist-upgrade

attraktiver dist-upgrades per cron-job durchführen zu lassen. dafuer gibt es cron-apt, wobei man dann einstellen kann, was exakt passieren soll, z.B. mit neuen Konfigs ... Gruss -- hgb -- Haeufig gestellte Fragen und Antworten (FAQ): http://www.de.debian.org/debian-user-german-FAQ/ Zum

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