On Wednesday 05 April 2006 01:32, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
And furthermore, you edited /etc/crontab or something similar
instead of using crontab(1) to edit /var/cron/tabs/root. Nitpicky,
to be sure, but the cause of many a heartache:
On 2006-04-05 07:03, Marlon Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i created a simple shell script:
filename: rn
#!/bin/sh
rndc dumpdb
what it does, is just dump the hostname and IP addresses in /var/dump
i set the time in 2 minutes but when i checked the logs, it doesnt work any
idea what did
Marlon Martin wrote:
i created a simple shell script:
filename: rn
#!/bin/sh
rndc dumpdb
what it does, is just dump the hostname and IP addresses in /var/dump
i set the time in 2 minutes but when i checked the logs, it doesnt work any
idea what did i missed here?
You forgot to use
Chuck Swiger wrote:
Marlon Martin wrote:
i created a simple shell script:
filename: rn
#!/bin/sh
rndc dumpdb
what it does, is just dump the hostname and IP addresses in /var/dump
i set the time in 2 minutes but when i checked the logs, it doesnt work any
idea what did i missed here?
Vaaf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Cron keeps spamming me:
override r operator/operator for
/var/db/entropy/saved-entropy.6? (y/n [n]) not overwritten
override r operator/operator for
/var/db/entropy/saved-entropy.5? (y/n [n]) not overwritten
override r
Graham Bentley wrote:
Is it OK to list two different tasks on two lines for the exactly the same
time ?
I did this and the second one didnt run maybe it was a problem with the
job ...
You're probably better off having a one-line cron line which invokes a shell
script that runs your two
bsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello,
I am using a little cron script to update my server that calls
portsnap. Once this is done there is another piece of script that
tells me which port(s) is to be updated with a simple call to a
script that mainly execute portversion -l and mail me the
On Thursday, December 08, 2005 5:23:10 AM, Beecher Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: cron
Wrote these words of wisdom:
I have a script that is running in root's cron. The script runs successfully,
but it emails me on completion with info I don't need. Is there a command I
can add to have it
On Thursday 08 December 2005 01:39 am, Gerard Seibert wrote:
On Thursday, December 08, 2005 5:23:10 AM, Beecher Rintoul
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: cron
Wrote these words of wisdom:
I have a script that is running in root's cron. The script runs
successfully, but it emails me on completion
You're right... it's for /usr/local/bin/bash. Obviously I had a lot more
problems than I was aware of. Its working now; thanks, I appreciate
everyone's help.
for (( i = $numbkups ; i = 2 ; i-- ))
do
let from=i-1
mv -fv $dbkups/$from $dbkups/$i
done
Hmmm, what shell is this
On 2005-11-04 08:47, Brandon Hinesley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
for (( i = $numbkups ; i = 2 ; i-- ))
do
let from=i-1
mv -fv $dbkups/$from $dbkups/$i
done
Hmmm, what shell is this supposed to run in?
It doesn't look like /bin/sh syntax to me.
You're right... it's for
Brandon Hinesley wrote:
The script below works perfectly when I run it from a console, however,
nothing at all seems to happen as evidenced by the backups not being
rotated. I don't know if this makes a difference, but the Backup folder
is a file system on an external hard drive. I am also
Well that's embarrassing. Good eye, thank you. Still not working though.
-Original Message-
From: DAve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 12:37 PM
To: Brandon Hinesley
Subject: Re: Cron Job will not run.
Brandon Hinesley wrote:
Here's a copy of my backup
Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
Brandon Hinesley wrote:
The script below works perfectly when I run it from a console, however,
nothing at all seems to happen as evidenced by the backups not being
rotated. I don't know if this makes a difference, but the Backup
folder
is a file system on an external
@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Cron Job will not run.
Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
Brandon Hinesley wrote:
The script below works perfectly when I run it from a console, however,
nothing at all seems to happen as evidenced by the backups not being
rotated. I don't know if this makes a difference
already tried giving the absolute path to
every executable mentioned in the script, but to no avail.
-Original Message-
From: Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 12:56 PM
To: Alex Zbyslaw
Cc: Brandon Hinesley; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Cron Job
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 1:07 PM
To: Brandon Hinesley
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Cron Job will not run.
May be a really dumb question here, but like all technical problems, start
with
the simple stuff:
ps ax | grep cron
Is cron even running?
--
Nathan
On 2005-11-03 13:01, Brandon Hinesley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alex Zbyslaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Brandon Hinesley wrote:
The script below works perfectly when I run it from a
console, however, nothing at all seems to happen as evidenced
by the backups not being rotated. I don't
:02.20 /usr/sbin/cron -s
57450 p0 R+ 0:00.00 grep cron
Thanks
-Original Message-
From: Nathan Vidican [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 1:07 PM
To: Brandon Hinesley
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Cron Job will not run.
May be a really dumb question here
: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Cron Job will not run.
Merely adding it as an assignment is not enough for child
processes of the cron script to 'see' the value. Make sure
you also 'export' the new PATH:
PATH='...'
export PATH
Then the rsync process will use the new PATH
On 2005-11-03 13:41, Brandon Hinesley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay, I exported the updated path to include /usr/local/bin. Still not
working though. My script is in /usr/local/Backup/scripts/bkup-daily.
Since I'm referencing the absolute path in /etc/crontab like this:
35 13 *
Yes, it is.
-rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel 1827 Nov 3 12:43 bkup-daily
I don't have to export /usr/local/Backup/scripts, right?
Hmmm, no, but is the script executable?
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On 2005-11-03 13:51, Brandon Hinesley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, it is.
-rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel 1827 Nov 3 12:43 bkup-daily
I don't have to export /usr/local/Backup/scripts, right?
Hmmm, no, but is the script executable?
That's odd. You'll have to schedule this script to run some
Okay, the problem seems to be with a certain part of my script. Like I
said, it works fine when I start it manually (./)
I set up a few checkpoints if you will, and I determined that it's this
loop that cron has a problem with:
for (( i = $numbkups ; i = 2 ; i-- ))
do
let from=i-1
mv
On 2005-11-03 16:33, Brandon Hinesley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay, the problem seems to be with a certain part of my script.
Like I said, it works fine when I start it manually (./)
I set up a few checkpoints if you will, and I determined that
it's this loop that cron has a problem with:
Dennis Olvany [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How do I change the e-mail address and SMTP server cron uses to e-mail the
daily root report?
There are several methods.
You can configure periodic(8) itself through settings in
periodic.conf(5) [i.e., type man 5 periodic.conf for details].
My
MAILTO=[EMAIL PROTECTED] in the /etc/crontab file... I believe. It's discussed in
man 5 crontab.
Ben
Dennis Olvany wrote:
How do I change the e-mail address and SMTP server cron uses to e-mail the
daily root report?
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I'm having problems getting my freshly update FreeBSD 5.3 system to run
my cron jobs. Logged in as root, I enter the job in root's crontab with
the following command
crontab -e
I enter the job in the following format:
05 10 * * * /root/cronjobs/cvs-sup.sh
Andy Clements wrote:
Hello All,
I'm having problems getting my freshly update FreeBSD 5.3 system to
run my cron jobs. Logged in as root, I enter the job in root's
crontab with the following command
crontab -e
I enter the job in the following format:
05 10 * * *
On Tuesday 14 December 2004 12:20, Andy Clements wrote:
Did I forget some small tid-bit that needs to change for this to work?
Cron requires a newline at the end of the file. I'll bet that your crontab
ends with cvs-sup.sh and not cvs-sup.shNEWLINE.
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pgpBCUQtL0uV4.pgp
Bob Ababurko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey there-
I am running FreeBSD 5.2.1 and I have a cron job running
webalizer. The cron job seems to be running based on the log, but the data
is not being updated in the directory. I do believe that I can say that
the webalizer is configured
'My' webalizer is in /usr/local/bin/ but then I use FBSD 5.1.
Try with specifying where you have the configuration file
( -c path-to-config-file-and-filename).
Eg. /usr/local/bin/webalizer -c /usr/local/www/conf/webalizer.conf
I use it in a shell script and it works fine.
Malcolm Kay wrote:
[ ... ]
The presence of a problem became evident when when I was
unable to log into the machine Monday morning, neither from
a console or through ssh on the LAN. At the console it puts up
a login prompt and accepts the name entry but that is all --
no password prompt and no
On Fri, 21 May 2004, carvin5string wrote:
[...]
It would be nice to see some info about the differance between the
system and user crontabs and how to properly create and use a user
crontab, as well as when/why one would want to use a user crontab.
I missed the earlier parts of this exchange,
David Fleck wrote:
If you already have a file written in the proper format, you can load it
as your crontab by specifying 'crontab {filename}'. (That's what section
6.6.1 in the handbook is trying to say. Unfortunately, it is not at all
clear on this.)
There was an outstanding PR on this ... I
Thanks for all the help. I like the changes so far. What about
specifically mentioning in the Handbook chapter that when a user runs
the command
crontab crontab
the user should do this in their own home directory. My problem was I
ran it in the /etc directory, not knowing any better, probably
chip wrote:
Thanks for all the help. I like the changes so far. What about
specifically mentioning in the Handbook chapter that when a user runs
the command
crontab crontab
the user should do this in their own home directory. My problem was I
ran it in the /etc directory, not knowing any
On Sat, 22 May 2004, chip wrote:
So, now I am trying to run -
crontab crontab
in my non-root user directory, as the non-root user, and it fails with this-
crontab: crontab: No such file or directory
I tried -
crontab -u chip crontab -e(with and without the -e)
also and it failed with
--- Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What you did was install the system crontab as a user. Log in as the
user you executed crontab crontab as, and enter crontab -r. That
will remove the crontab for that user.
On a related note. I'm going to make some changes to that section of
the
On Thursday 20 May 2004 09:14, carvin5string wrote:
I have a new server set up and running and am getting a slew of
messages from cron, like this -
Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] root /usr/libexec/atrun
Body: root: not found
and
Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] operator /usr/libexec/save-entropy
carvin5string wrote:
I have a new server set up and running and am getting a slew of
messages from cron, like this -
Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] root /usr/libexec/atrun
Body: root: not found
and
Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] operator /usr/libexec/save-entropy
operator: not found
What's
On Thursday 20 May 2004 17:47, Bill Moran wrote:
carvin5string wrote:
I have a new server set up and running and am getting a slew of
messages from cron, like this -
Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] root /usr/libexec/atrun
Body: root: not found
and
Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] operator
--- Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You've got a user's crontab created in the format of the system
crontab.
The system crontab has an extra field to designate the user under
which
the job should run. When this field is entered in a user's crontab,
cron interprets it as the command
On Thursday 20 May 2004 22:57, carvin5string wrote:
--- Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You've got a user's crontab created in the format of the system
crontab.
The system crontab has an extra field to designate the user under
which
the job should run. When this field is entered
carvin5string wrote:
--- Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You've got a user's crontab created in the format of the system
crontab.
The system crontab has an extra field to designate the user under
which
the job should run. When this field is entered in a user's crontab,
cron interprets it as
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 12:51:34PM +0200, Ian Barnes wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to find out if something is possible. On our servers we would
like all mail from cron not to come from [EMAIL PROTECTED] but rather from say
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I assume you still want the jobs to be run by root
Hi,
Thanks for the reply. Yes we want cron to be run as root. Okay, we are
running exim, so I will see what i can do.
Thanks
Ian
-Original Message-
From: Matthew Seaman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 13 May 2004 01:16 PM
To: Ian Barnes
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Cron
Leroy Isbell 3DMASTERS wrote:
Hello All,
I need a little help in setting a cron job. I have a php command script i
need to have run Daly.
I am using freebsd stable 4.9.
What have you tried to do so far?
One thing you might find easier than cron is periodic. See man periodic
and take a look at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A quick question--
I run MRTG for many boxes on my network at five minute intervals, and I am
seeing massive amounts of email filling up roots inbox due to boxes that
are currently offline for the night or something.
What I am wondering is, is if there is a way to still
Hi!
What I am wondering is, is if there is a way to still have the entries in
me /etc/crontab to run MRTG at 5 minute intervals without having any
output emailed out.
You can set up MRTG to run as daemon using the RunAsDaemon keyword in
the .cfg file. This way you don't need to run it from
On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 21:25 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What I am wondering is, is if there is a way to still have the entries in
me /etc/crontab to run MRTG at 5 minute intervals without having any
output emailed out. can i make it come out to concole instead? anything to
get it from
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
See documentation for crontab. ``MAILTO='' should do what you want,
or send all output from command to /dev/null, i.e. command /dev/null
Quintin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| A quick question--
| I run MRTG for many boxes on my network at five minute
See man 5 crontab:
If MAILTO is defined (and non-empty), mail is sent to the user so named. If MAILTO is
defined but
empty (MAILTO=), no mail will be sent.
So just add the following entry to your /etc/crontab:
MAILTO=
and cron will send no more eMails.
A quick question--
I run MRTG for many
Schimcek, Derrick wrote:
I have a FreeBSD 5.0 and a FreeBSD 5.2 box both running recent versions of f-prot antivirus when you run the virus def updater through cron it gets halfway through the scripts and then dies. When you run it from the command line it runs correctly. so I wrote my own script
Hello everyone,
Thank you for the answers,
True, I didnot use the full path for ipfw in my script.
when I added to the script /sbin/ipfw RULE_HERE everything works great.
I thought it will regonize the command ipfw by it self. well it didnot :)
Thank you again marty, nathan, Ion and all
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 15:51:16 +0300
Marwan Sultan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello everyone,
Thank you for the answers,
True, I didnot use the full path for ipfw in my script.
when I added to the script /sbin/ipfw RULE_HERE everything works
great. I thought it will regonize the command
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 23:33:45 +0300
Marwan Sultan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello bsd,
I have FreeBSD 4.8R, NATd, ipfw enabled.
I want to add a rule to ipfw which activate from 3AM to 3PM : says:
ipfw 05000 add deny all from 192.168.1.21 to any
The following entries in my crontab
At 03:33 PM 2/20/2004, Marwan Sultan wrote:
I want to add a rule to ipfw which activate from 3AM to 3PM : says:
ipfw 05000 add deny all from 192.168.1.21 to any
How to run the scripts? thro crontab I fixed my crontab to
0 3 * * * /path/deny.sh
0 15 * * * /path/enable.sh
Marwan, are
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 11:33:45PM +0300, Marwan Sultan wrote:
Hello bsd,
I have FreeBSD 4.8R, NATd, ipfw enabled.
I want to add a rule to ipfw which activate from 3AM to 3PM : says:
ipfw 05000 add deny all from 192.168.1.21 to any
So I created a shell script lets say deny.sh
On Tue, 03 Feb 2004, Bjorn Eikeland wrote:
Looks like it (from port collection):
Port: anacron-2.3
Path: /usr/ports/sysutils/anacron
Info: Schedules periodic jobs on systems that are not permanently up
Maint: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Index: sysutils
B-deps: expat-1.95.6_1 gettext-0.12.1
Looks like it (from port collection):
Port: anacron-2.3
Path: /usr/ports/sysutils/anacron
Info: Schedules periodic jobs on systems that are not permanently up
Maint: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Index: sysutils
B-deps: expat-1.95.6_1 gettext-0.12.1 gmake-3.80_1 libiconv-1.9.1_3
R-deps:
Hi,
I use
shawn wrote:
I installed MRTG and got it working. Noticed that it seemed it was not polling on its own. So I changed the cron job to make it poll more often and in fact its not polling on its own.
Also noticed that I stopped receiving my Dailey, reports via email.. I'm also trouble shooting a
adjkerntz -a
*/1 * * * * /usr/local/bin/mrtg
/usr/local/etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg
- Original Message -
From: Jonathan T. Sage [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: shawn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2003 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: cron jobs
shawn wrote:
*snip*
1,310-5 * * * rootadjkerntz -a
*/1 * * * * /usr/local/bin/mrtg
/usr/local/etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg
Part of your problem is going to be right here. comparing two lines,
you will notice the the 6th field is the user to
* Scott Rothgaber:
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin ; export PATH
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
Will do it.
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http://caraldi.com/jbq/
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Scott Rothgaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm in the process of converting all of our servers from BSD/OS. One
of the things that I've always done is to copy all of the jobs from
`/etc/crontab' to root's crontab so that all of the system jobs are in
one place.
A simple copy won't work; the
Lowell Gilbert wrote:
A simple copy won't work; the files have different formats.
Understood. The format of the tab is fine. When the command runs,
however, there is a path problem because the job will generate errors
like chkgrp: not found.
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Scott Rothgaber wrote:
Lowell Gilbert wrote:
A simple copy won't work; the files have different formats.
Understood. The format of the tab is fine. When the command runs,
however, there is a path problem because the job will generate errors
like chkgrp: not found.
Cron has a very limited
Gary,
Thank you for your reply. Your comments are informative but I still
don't know what to do!
For some reason, I am not receiving mail sent from cron to root.
Therefore, I cannot see any of my (rather important) daily cron logs.
I can send mail to root from anyplace else, either inside or
Hello Ralph,
Tuesday, September 2, 2003, 1:27:16 PM, you wrote:
RD For some reason, I am not receiving mail sent from cron to root.
RD Therefore, I cannot see any of my (rather important) daily cron logs.
RD I can send mail to root from anyplace else, either inside or outside
RD the box, and
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 02:27:16PM -0400, Ralph Dratman wrote:
Gary,
Thank you for your reply. Your comments are informative but I still
don't know what to do!
For some reason, I am not receiving mail sent from cron to root.
Therefore, I cannot see any of my (rather important) daily
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 02:27:16PM -0400, Ralph Dratman wrote:
Gary,
Thank you for your reply. Your comments are informative but I still
don't know what to do!
For some reason, I am not receiving mail sent from cron to root.
Therefore, I cannot see any of my (rather important) daily
Hi Ralph,
When I manually send mail to root from either inside the box or from
elsewhere, it is properly received by [EMAIL PROTECTED] (an external domain).
Any and all comments would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.
It sounds like you have it setup properly. It works fine for me
Matthew Graybosch writes:
On 20:49 Thu 28 Aug , Scott Ballantyne wrote:
You can always set the NO_MAILWRAPPER=true and NO_SENDMAIL=true flags
in /etc/make.conf.
I thought you were supposed to also set sendmail_enable=NONE in
/etc/rc.conf as well.
Well, that makes it a lot less
Thank you for your replies.
My /etc/mail/mailer.conf is as follows:
-
sendmail/var/qmail/bin/sendmail
send-mail /var/qmail/bin/sendmail
mailq /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread
newaliases /var/qmail/bin/newaliases
Hello Ralph,
Friday, August 29, 2003, 4:36:35 PM, you wrote:
RD Thank you for your replies.
I am in the process of migrating from Linux and setting up my first
FreeBSD box, so I am unfamiliar with FreeBSD, but I do know qmail well.
Qmail normally logs to its own multilog, (far superior with
Ralph Dratman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Has anyone else seen this happen?
What does your mailer.conf look like?
Matthias
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Hi, you could try to solve this by renaming the actual mail/sendmail binaries and by
linking instead the one from /var/qmail/bin
Adi Pircalabu
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 19:21:04 -0400
Ralph Dratman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since I switched from sendmail to qmail, most of my cron jobs are no
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 09:45:55AM +0300, Adrian Pircalabu wrote:
Hi, you could try to solve this by renaming the actual mail/sendmail binaries and by
linking instead the one from /var/qmail/bin
Bad solution. The correct way is to use mailer.conf(5).
--
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You're right, I'm right, it's a matter of taste, somehow.
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:05:19 +1200
Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 09:45:55AM +0300, Adrian Pircalabu wrote:
Hi, you could try to solve this by renaming the actual mail/sendmail binaries and
by
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 07:21:04PM -0400, Ralph Dratman wrote:
Since I switched from sendmail to qmail, most of my cron jobs are no
longer sending me log files.
Has anyone else seen this happen?
Regards,
Ralph
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On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:12:55AM +0300, Adrian Pircalabu wrote:
You're right, I'm right, it's a matter of taste, somehow.
The mailer.conf method is preferred as it doesn't wipe itself out when
you upgrade your system with buildworld/installworld.
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:05:19 +1200
Jonathan
Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:12:55AM +0300, Adrian Pircalabu wrote:
You're right, I'm right, it's a matter of taste, somehow.
The mailer.conf method is preferred as it doesn't wipe itself out when
you upgrade your system with buildworld/installworld.
On 20:49 Thu 28 Aug , Scott Ballantyne wrote:
You can always set the NO_MAILWRAPPER=true and NO_SENDMAIL=true flags
in /etc/make.conf.
I thought you were supposed to also set sendmail_enable=NONE in
/etc/rc.conf as well.
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http://www.starbreaker.net
The best way to
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 07:18:16PM +0200, Rick Hoekman wrote:
I am getting this message every 5 minutes. Can somebody explain to me
why root apparently is not found here?
X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon)
To: [EMAIL
cause perusal of the documentation, which is plenty for seeking mind, is not
you nature, sir...
crontab(1) i.e.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] man 1 crontab
I am getting this message every 5 minutes. Can somebody explain to me
why root apparently is not found here?
X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jim Pazarena [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am trying to grep for a record from a crob job...
the entry looks like this:
58 23 * * * grep `date +%Y-%m-%d ` /log/fylename | mail admin
cron complains:
Syntax error: EOF in backquote substitution
could someone enlighten me please?
I thought I had answered this before, but AFAIK, dump just doesn't support
multiple volumes. You'll either need to get a higher capacity tape drive,
resize your partitions, or use another backup utility.
- Original Message -
From: Bob Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
Another item to check: Faulty time service might produce
such duplication. The first cron job would run on the
old time; the time updates; it then runs the job again.
There would not be a 3rd run because the clock is now correct.
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 08:23:30PM -0400, John wrote:
For quite
At 04:03 AM 7/3/2003, Andrew Boothman wrote:
On Thursday 03 July 2003 1:23 am, John wrote:
Hi All,
For quite some time now my system has been executing all entries in the
crontab twice, instead of the expected once. This happens most obviously
for the periodic scripts, but also on some
On Thursday 03 July 2003 1:23 am, John wrote:
Hi All,
For quite some time now my system has been executing all entries in the
crontab twice, instead of the expected once. This happens most obviously
for the periodic scripts, but also on some scripts that I added for
nightly, weekly, or runs
At 04:03 AM 7.3.2003 +0100, Andrew Boothman wrote:
On Thursday 03 July 2003 1:23 am, John wrote:
Hi All,
For quite some time now my system has been executing all entries in the
crontab twice, instead of the expected once. This happens most obviously
for the periodic scripts, but also on some
root: not found
Jun 17 00:20:00 silver-fox /usr/sbin/cron[247]: (root) CMD
(root^I/usr/libexec/atrun)
I'm guessing, but it sounds a lot like cron is trying to execute
root as a command. The ^I is probably a control character that go into
a file somewhere by accident. You might want
Mike McGrath wrote:
Hi -
Right now I have a problem with my crontab.
Here is the crontab file.
silver-fox# crontab -l
# /etc/crontab - root's crontab for FreeBSD
#
# $FreeBSD: src/etc/crontab,v 1.21.2.3 2000/12/08 10:56:07 obrien Exp $
#
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
Hi,
In your script try giving the full path of all the commands you are using.
Cheers
SSR
From: Martin Tsanov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: cron job
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 17:09:01 +0100
Hello
I have a gateway with wireless interface wi0. From time to time it
hangs
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 05:09:01PM +0100, Martin Tsanov wrote:
Hello
I have a gateway with wireless interface wi0. From time to time it hangs down
with the following log entry in /var/log/all.log
Mar 28 22:19:37 morpheus /kernel: wi0: failed to allocate 1594 bytes on NIC
Mar 28
On 2003-03-14 16:08, Kenzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying to automatically create a report in cron and E-mailling it to my
E-mail account.
this is what I have.
0 1 0 0 0 root /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/spamstat.pl /var/log/maillog.0
/var/log/spam_report | uuencode spam_report
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 02:52:34PM +0200, Bigbrother wrote:
Hi friends,
Recently I put into my crontab the following line
4 0 */10 * * /usr/bin/tar -cyf /backup/lab.`date +%d%m%Y`.tar.bz /lab
But although I can execute the command into my shell, crond refuses to
execute and send me an
In the last episode (Jan 27), Schrodinger said:
I'm loooking for help with Cron. When cron is running my mailbox starts to
fill up with hundreds of mails from cron and they are all the same:
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 17:40:00 GMT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-26 11:08:36 -0500:
ok, I read man cron and man crontab, and it's as clear as mud. Anyplace I
can read more and maybe make the light dawn on this useful feature? OR,
would anyone care to explain more?
certainly.
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