Re: cron jobs + (some?) output

2004-12-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ben Russo wrote: Maurits van Rees wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:12:31PM -0500, Ben Russo wrote: 3 4 * * * rm -f /var/log/mplayer.log; mv /var/log/mplayer.log /var/log/mplayer.log.yesterday; mplayer -command -options blah blah /var/log/mplayer.log 21 This command will create a new log every

Re: cron jobs + (some?) output

2004-12-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Maurits van Rees wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:17:29PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi Debian! I found out something that was of interest: You run mplayer from a cron job. You kill mplayer from a cron job. A mail with details gets mailed to root. Okay. Interesting. Was there a question I

Re: cron jobs + (some?) output

2004-12-08 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 07:11:29AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Maurits van Rees wrote: You run mplayer from a cron job. You kill mplayer from a cron job. A mail with details gets mailed to root. Okay. Interesting. Was there a question I missed? Did you know that output of a no shell

Re: cron jobs + (some?) output

2004-12-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 07:11 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Maurits van Rees wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:17:29PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi Debian! I found out something that was of interest: You run mplayer from a cron job. You kill mplayer from a cron job. A mail

Re: cron jobs + (some?) output

2004-12-08 Thread Carl Johnson
Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Debian! I found out something that was of interest: I run mplayer from a script in the early morning as a cron job. It start a script that forks and runs execve mplayer to record KUSC for 3 hours. Then 3 hours later I start another cron

Re: cron jobs + (some?) output

2004-12-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 07:11 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Maurits van Rees wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:17:29PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi Debian! I found out something that was of interest: You run mplayer from a cron job. You kill mplayer from a cron job. A mail

Re: cron jobs + (some?) output

2004-12-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Carl Johnson wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Debian! I found out something that was of interest: I run mplayer from a script in the early morning as a cron job. It start a script that forks and runs execve mplayer to record KUSC for 3 hours. Then 3 hours later I start another

cron jobs + (some?) output

2004-12-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! I found out something that was of interest: I run mplayer from a script in the early morning as a cron job. It start a script that forks and runs execve mplayer to record KUSC for 3 hours. Then 3 hours later I start another cron job that kills the former. My problem (small one) was

Re: cron jobs + (some?) output

2004-12-07 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:17:29PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi Debian! I found out something that was of interest: You run mplayer from a cron job. You kill mplayer from a cron job. A mail with details gets mailed to root. Okay. Interesting. Was there a question I missed? -- Maurits

Re: cron jobs + (some?) output

2004-12-07 Thread Ben Russo
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: ... I run mplayer from a script in the early morning as a cron job. My problem (small one) was that since there is no shell, where is the output? Gues what: it gets sent to root! Yes, output from cron processes is sent via e-mail to the owner of the process using local

Re: cron jobs + (some?) output

2004-12-07 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:12:31PM -0500, Ben Russo wrote: 3 4 * * * rm -f /var/log/mplayer.log; mv /var/log/mplayer.log /var/log/mplayer.log.yesterday; mplayer -command -options blah blah /var/log/mplayer.log 21 This command will create a new log every day, and keep yesterdays log too,

Re: cron jobs + (some?) output

2004-12-07 Thread Ben Russo
Maurits van Rees wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:12:31PM -0500, Ben Russo wrote: 3 4 * * * rm -f /var/log/mplayer.log; mv /var/log/mplayer.log /var/log/mplayer.log.yesterday; mplayer -command -options blah blah /var/log/mplayer.log 21 This command will create a new log every day, and keep

Re: cron jobs without mailing

2004-09-27 Thread Johann Koenig
On 9/27/2004, (Otto Wyss) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the simplest way to write a local log file? ~/.cron.log or use whatever redirection your shell uses. -- -Johann Koenig

cron jobs without mailing

2004-09-26 Thread Otto Wyss
To update my webpages from CVS I use a crontab with some jobs. But every time the jobs are executed at sourceforge.net I get a mail. This seems to be the default behaviour. Is there a possibility to disable this mailing? O. Wyss -- See a huge pile of work at http://wyodesktop.sourceforge.net/;

Re: cron jobs without mailing

2004-09-26 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 09:02:33PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: To update my webpages from CVS I use a crontab with some jobs. But every time the jobs are executed at sourceforge.net I get a mail. This seems to be the default behaviour. Is there a possibility to disable this mailing? IIRC cron

Re: cron jobs without mailing

2004-09-26 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 12:20:56 -0700, Stefan O'Rear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 09:02:33PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: To update my webpages from CVS I use a crontab with some jobs. But every time the jobs are executed at sourceforge.net I get a mail. This seems to be the

Re: [HELP] Machine sleeps so cron-jobs and shutdown don't work.

2004-03-07 Thread Preben Randhol
that. You'll have to leave it on, or look into anacron to capture cron jobs after it wakes up. Yes, I was leaving it on that was the problem. However, yesterday I discovered a BIOS setting which I had misunderstood and it seems that this was my problem. After turning it off then the machine started working

Re: [HELP] Machine sleeps so cron-jobs and shutdown don't work.

2004-03-07 Thread stephen parkinson
will do that. You'll have to leave it on, or look into anacron to capture cron jobs after it wakes up. Yes, I was leaving it on that was the problem. However, yesterday I discovered a BIOS setting which I had misunderstood and it seems that this was my problem. After turning it off

[HELP] Machine sleeps so cron-jobs and shutdown don't work.

2004-03-06 Thread Preben Randhol
Hi I have a problem with my machine. If I leave it for some time it seems that it starts sleeping so that neither cron-jobs work nor shutdown -h Example: I sat today up a cronjob to start at 15:00. I went at 14:20 and I came back at 16:12. The machine was locked with xscreensaver. When I got

USB Webcams and Linux cron jobs?

2004-01-13 Thread Robert L. Harris
I'm looking at setting up a webcam up in my boy's room so I can monitor them from downstairs when they have friends over (4 and 6yrs old can get rambunctious). I want to set up something small and quiet so I don't have to run up there and disturb them but also know they're not killing each

Re: USB Webcams and Linux cron jobs?

2004-01-13 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 09:38:01AM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: I'm looking at setting up a webcam up in my boy's room so I can monitor them from downstairs when they have friends over (4 and 6yrs old can get rambunctious). I want to set up something small and quiet so I don't have to

Re: avoid running cron jobs on holidays

2003-12-09 Thread Vineet Kumar
* csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031205 14:57]: On 5. December 2003 at 10:28AM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Em Wed, 03 Dec 2003 18:06:17 +0530, Sabar_Prabhu escreveu: ur email id over the net n saw that ur an Which language is this? To whom are ye talking to? He's probably

Re: avoid running cron jobs on holidays

2003-12-05 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Wed, 03 Dec 2003 18:06:17 +0530, Sabar_Prabhu escreveu: ur email id over the net n saw that ur an Which language is this? To whom are ye talking to? -- Leandro Guimares Faria Corsetti Dutra [EMAIL PROTECTED] +55 (11) 9406 7191 Belo

Re: avoid running cron jobs on holidays

2003-12-05 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 at 12:28 GMT, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra penned: Em Wed, 03 Dec 2003 18:06:17 +0530, Sabar_Prabhu escreveu: ur email id over the net n saw that ur an Which language is this? To whom are ye talking to? What language uses the construct To whom are ye

Re: avoid running cron jobs on holidays

2003-12-05 Thread Tom
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 10:57:11AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: -- monique To whom dost thou speak? Have you seen the new Fedex commercial where the 3 guys in the mailroom say: If we don't send that with Fedex we'll be DOOMED! and they repeat in super melodramatic theatrical tones:

Re: avoid running cron jobs on holidays

2003-12-05 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 at 19:08 GMT, Tom penned: On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 10:57:11AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: -- monique To whom dost thou speak? Have you seen the new Fedex commercial where the 3 guys in the mailroom say: If we don't send that with Fedex we'll be DOOMED! and they repeat

Re: avoid running cron jobs on holidays

2003-12-05 Thread Paul Morgan
On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 12:20:50 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 at 19:08 GMT, Tom penned: On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 10:57:11AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: -- monique To whom dost thou speak? Have you seen the new Fedex commercial where the 3 guys in the mailroom say: If

avoid running cron jobs on holidays

2003-12-03 Thread Sabar_Prabhu
Hi, I came over ur email id over the net n saw that ur an expert. i have a query when it comes to a cron job in UNIX that i am running, i wish to know how to avoid jobs running on X-mas n New Year n other Public holidays? wud u have a soultion and also help me out with the UNIX code for the

keine cron-Jobs

2003-09-14 Thread Christian Schult
Hallo, ich benutze Sid/unstable. Seit dem letzten Update führt cron keine Jobs mehr aus. Es handelt sich um cron-3.0pl1-77. Das Paket bringt eine geänderte /etc/pam.d/cron Datei mit, die im Unterschied zur /etc/pam.d/cron der vorher installierten cron-Version (3.0pl1-74) die kürzlich im

cron jobs können keine mail senden

2003-09-05 Thread Matthias Bitterlich
Guten Tag! Cron kann nach dem Beenden eines Jobs keine Statusmail mehr senden. Im Logbuch erhalte ich Nachrichten wie diese: Sep 5 13:40:01 mail /USR/SBIN/CRON[11283]: (smmsp) MAIL (mailed 82 bytes of output but got status 0x0048 ) Sep 5 13:30:01 mail /USR/SBIN/CRON[11166]: (list) MAIL (mailed

bootcd: log files and cron jobs

2003-04-02 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
of space. So this needs finetuning /etc/logrotate.d and /etc/cron.* There are cron jobs which run frequently and recreate stuff which is very time consuming and needs a lot of disktime due the cdrom. I wonder if they could be turned off - cdrom is static. so long Thomas -- ___Obviously we

user cron jobs

2000-02-01 Thread hawk
I can't seem toget user cron jobs to run on my system. As I'm reading man 1 and 5 for crontab, I should be able to have the line 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * ch1quiz /usr/local/bin/updatehw 2 $HOME/tmp.quizlog in /etc/crontab, and every ten minutes user ch1quiz will run /usr/local/bin/updatehw

Re: user cron jobs

2000-02-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 11:30:56AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : I can't seem toget user cron jobs to run on my system. As I'm reading : man 1 and 5 for crontab, I should be able to have the line : : 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * ch1quiz /usr/local/bin/updatehw 2 $HOME/tmp.quizlog Try

Re: user cron jobs

2000-02-01 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 1 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * ch1quiz /usr/local/bin/updatehw 2 $HOME/tmp.quizlog in /etc/crontab, and every ten minutes user ch1quiz will run /usr/local/bin/updatehw with the output and errors appended to tmp.quizlog in its home directory. But

Leafnode, fetchnews and cron jobs

1999-11-28 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all, I decided to set up leafnode for reading mail with slrn. I have everyhting set up okay, AFAIK. I guess leafnode runs from cron.daily, but I want to pull down new messages more frequently. I created the following file in cron.d: # /etc/cron.d/leafnode: crontab fragment for leafnode

Re: Leafnode, fetchnews and cron jobs

1999-11-28 Thread Mark Wagnon
Nevermind, it's working now. Scratches head and shrugs... -- __ _ Mark Wagnon ( Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA) /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\

Annoying anacron (or cron?) jobs after turning on the debian box

1999-11-28 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi all, I saw a lot of complaints on this list, concerning the behaviour of debian box shortly after turning it on. If the box is running continuously, all the serious housekeeping tasks are performed unnoticeably (because before 7am each normal computer user sleeps tidy :-) ), but if someone uses

Re: Cron jobs

1999-11-12 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 11:41:19AM -0500, Brian Schramm wrote OK I have looked at the cron and crontabs man pages to no avail. I would like to have a script that runs every 15 minutes only send me an email if it errors. The script exits out if certain conditions are good. I have it exiting

Cron jobs

1999-11-11 Thread Brian Schramm
OK I have looked at the cron and crontabs man pages to no avail. I would like to have a script that runs every 15 minutes only send me an email if it errors. The script exits out if certain conditions are good. I have it exiting with an exit command in a if statement. What I want is it to

Re: Cron jobs

1999-11-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
Brian Schramm wrote: OK I have looked at the cron and crontabs man pages to no avail. I would like to have a script that runs every 15 minutes only send me an email if it errors. The script exits out if certain conditions are good. I have it exiting with an exit command in a if

Re: Cron jobs

1999-11-11 Thread Eric Gillespie Jr.
. The output of your cron jobs is mailed to you. You could also use mail to do it yourself, like this: cat EOF |mail -s cron errors username This didn't work. Blah blah $f. EOF -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. * [EMAIL PROTECTED] I thought I was in love once. Later I learned it was an inner ear infection

Cron Jobs Don't Purge

1999-07-13 Thread Nate Duehr
I've noted that when using dselect to install and uninstall various software packages (mostly in slink, but in potato systems too) that even after asking dpkg to purge the configuration files of a particular program, many times the cron entries for those programs are left behind. This, of

Re: Cron Jobs Don't Purge

1999-07-13 Thread Joey Hess
Nate Duehr wrote: Are these just oversights on the package maintainer's part, or is there a good reason they're left behind after being installed. I usually go in and clean them up myself, but should I be logging what packages do this and letting the maintainers know through the bug tracking

Re: missed cron jobs

1997-05-16 Thread A. M. Varon
On Thu, 15 May 1997, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: This morning I worked on my home debian system at a very early time (for me, that is), from 6:30 a.m on. All of a sudden my hard disk begins to crackle, opening a new window takes longer than normal (I have a lowly 486DX100), and after starting

Re: missed cron jobs

1997-05-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, May 15, 1997 at 04:38:11PM +0200, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: running `find' (it's amazing, isn't it ? :). I soon realized that this was cron running the cron.daily scripts. I never thought about this before, but it may very well have been the first time these scripts were run, my

missed cron jobs

1997-05-15 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
This morning I worked on my home debian system at a very early time (for me, that is), from 6:30 a.m on. All of a sudden my hard disk begins to crackle, opening a new window takes longer than normal (I have a lowly 486DX100), and after starting top I see that `nobody' is running `find' (it's

Re: missed cron jobs

1997-05-15 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On May 15, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote [problems when cron jobs are never executed on systems that aren't switched on 24hrs/day ?] Could this be harmful? AFAIK: not really. It does mean that logs keep on growing, but that's easily cured. I think a lot of people using linux at home don't leave

Re: missed cron jobs

1997-05-15 Thread John Maheu
On Thu, 15 May 1997, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: This morning I worked on my home debian system at a very early time (for me, that is), from 6:30 a.m on. All of a sudden my hard disk begins to crackle, opening a new window takes longer than normal (I have a lowly 486DX100), and after starting

Re: missed cron jobs

1997-05-15 Thread Eloy A. Paris
edit /etc/crontab and change the time for the dayly, weekly and monthly cron jobs. E.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9430323 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: missed cron jobs

1997-05-15 Thread Andy Mortimer
On May 15, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote This morning I worked on my home debian system at a very early time (for me, that is), from 6:30 a.m on. All of a sudden my hard disk begins to crackle, opening a new window takes longer than normal (I have a lowly 486DX100), and after starting top I see

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