On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:21:31 -0500, Dan Lists wrote:
The syntax of his crontab file is correct. Vixie cron does care about
leading spaces, tabs, extra spaces, or leading zeros. Earlier versions
of cron are much pickier about the crontab file. The cron logs show
that it is starting his
On 6/13/2012 6:23 PM, Walter Hurry wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:21:31 -0500, Dan Lists wrote:
The syntax of his crontab file is correct. Vixie cron does care about
leading spaces, tabs, extra spaces, or leading zeros. Earlier versions
of cron are much pickier about the crontab file. The
On 11/06/2012 23:10, Michael Sierchio wrote:
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote:
As the subject says, this is probably a newbie question (I am new to
FreeBSD but quite experienced at Linux).
FreeBSD9 on x86_64.
Cron is running:
$ ps -ax|grep cron
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:06:21 -0500, Robert Bonomi
bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote:
Comment: using a leading zero on the numeric fields is a BAD IDEA(tm) --
you
are *strongly* encocuraged to remove them. Yes, that means numbers will
not
be column aligned, but it is a small price to pay to
Mark Felder f...@feld.me writes:
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:06:21 -0500, Robert Bonomi
bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote:
Comment: using a leading zero on the numeric fields is a BAD IDEA(tm) --
you
are *strongly* encocuraged to remove them. Yes, that means numbers
will not
be column aligned,
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:36:37 -0500, Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote:
I don't have ready access to source at the moment, but I would expect
(like the normal C I/O functions) it will be interpreted as octal.
Suppose we could always ask Paul Vixie :-)
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:29:02 -0500, Mark Felder wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:06:21 -0500, Robert Bonomi
bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote:
Comment: using a leading zero on the numeric fields is a BAD IDEA(tm) --
you
are *strongly* encocuraged to remove them. Yes, that means numbers
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:29:02 -0500, Mark Felder wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:06:21 -0500, Robert Bonomi
bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote:
Comment: using a leading zero on the numeric fields is a BAD IDEA(tm) --
you
are
As the subject says, this is probably a newbie question (I am new to
FreeBSD but quite experienced at Linux).
FreeBSD9 on x86_64.
Cron is running:
$ ps -ax|grep cron
1513 ?? Is 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/cron -s
2283 0 S+ 0:00.00 grep cron
$
I have a syntactically valid crontab:
$
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote:
As the subject says, this is probably a newbie question (I am new to
FreeBSD but quite experienced at Linux).
FreeBSD9 on x86_64.
Cron is running:
$ ps -ax|grep cron
1513 ?? Is 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/cron -s
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:10:21 -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote:
Have you installed bash? It's not in the system base.
What's in your shell scripts?
Thanks for the quick response.
$ pkg_info|grep bash
bash-4.2.28 The GNU Project's Bourne Again SHell
$ which bash
/bin/bash
$
$ less
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote:
cat /etc/shells
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On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:21:12 -0500, Adam Vande More wrote:
You really have bash in /bin ? Are your scripts executable? What does
/var/log/cron say?
$ file /bin/bash
/bin/bash: symbolic link to `/usr/local/bin/bash'
$ sudo tail -50 /var/log/cron (result snipped at 02:22:00 for brevity)
Jun
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:36:28 -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote:
cat /etc/shells
$ cat /etc/shells
# $FreeBSD: release/9.0.0/etc/shells 59717 2000-04-27 21:58:46Z ache $
#
# List of acceptable shells for chpass(1).
# Ftpd will not allow users to connect who are not using
# one of these shells.
On 6/11/2012 9:25 PM, Walter Hurry wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:10:21 -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote:
Have you installed bash? It's not in the system base.
What's in your shell scripts?
Thanks for the quick response.
$ pkg_info|grep bash
bash-4.2.28 The GNU Project's Bourne
Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote:
As the subject says, this is probably a newbie question (I am new to
FreeBSD but quite experienced at Linux).
FreeBSD9 on x86_64.
Cron is running:
$ ps -ax|grep cron
1513 ?? Is 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/cron -s
2283 0 S+ 0:00.00 grep
exec the script with softlimit from daemontools (very easy to use), or
exec with ulimit in the shell.
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On Saturday 16 May 2009 19:27:22 Kirk Strauser wrote:
www:\
:cputime=300:\
:tc=default:
I've run cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf to make that live. Then, I used
vipw to change www's class:
www:*:80:80:www:0:0:World Wide Web Owner:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
However, I
On May 20, 2009, at 7:00 AM, Mel Flynn wrote:
Check with top what the CPU time is, it's not the same as the wall
clock.
Give me *some* credit. :-)
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On Wednesday 20 May 2009 16:18:28 Kirk Strauser wrote:
On May 20, 2009, at 7:00 AM, Mel Flynn wrote:
Check with top what the CPU time is, it's not the same as the wall
clock.
Give me *some* credit. :-)
Sorry, haven't you heard? Financial crisis ;)
Are you sure cron respects login.conf? I
I have a jail where the www user runs hourly cron jobs. On rare
occasion, these jobs get stuck in a seemingly infinite CPU loop - a
Python script calls Ghostscript and that child process never returns -
and I have to manually kill them. I'd like to use login.conf to set
resource limits
Mel wrote:
On Thursday 02 October 2008 17:11:52 DAve wrote:
Good morning all,
We have a cronjob we need to run as nobody from /etc/crontab and it
seems to be not working. The job runs, but not as user nobody.
I noticed two things,
1) the job to update the locate DB runs as nobody, because
On Thursday 02 October 2008 17:11:52 DAve wrote:
Good morning all,
We have a cronjob we need to run as nobody from /etc/crontab and it
seems to be not working. The job runs, but not as user nobody.
I noticed two things,
1) the job to update the locate DB runs as nobody, because the script
At 10:11 AM 10/2/2008, DAve wrote:
Good morning all,
We have a cronjob we need to run as nobody from /etc/crontab and it seems
to be not working. The job runs, but not as user nobody.
I noticed two things,
1) the job to update the locate DB runs as nobody, because the script uses
su to
Good morning all,
We have a cronjob we need to run as nobody from /etc/crontab and it
seems to be not working. The job runs, but not as user nobody.
I noticed two things,
1) the job to update the locate DB runs as nobody, because the script
uses su to become nobody.
echo
You can use ``su -c '/path/to/command' username'' to run scripts as
users other than root.
Another way is to use ``crontab -u username''. man crontab for
details.
Bill
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Bill Campbell wrote:
You can use ``su -c '/path/to/command' username'' to run scripts as
users other than root.
Another way is to use ``crontab -u username''. man crontab for
details.
Bill
I am being told the developer tried a user crontab without success. I've
not suggested they try su
Correct me if I'm wrong, but cron doesn't keep track of the last time
something was done, does it? Which is to say if my system is crashed,
was asleep, or powered off when a job is supposed to happen, it will
not happen the next time the system is successfully operational, will
it? It's not
In response to Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but cron doesn't keep track of the last time
something was done, does it? Which is to say if my system is crashed,
was asleep, or powered off when a job is supposed to happen, it will
not happen the next time the system
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 08:22:45AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but cron doesn't keep track of the last time
something was done, does it? Which is to say if my system is crashed,
was asleep, or powered off when a job is supposed to happen, it will
not happen the next
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:22:45 -0700
Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a tool or setting to implement this functionality? I want
something to happen weekly, I don't care when.
One way is to install a crontab replacement like fcron, but the easiest
way to handle this is to install
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 05:38:15PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 11:26:03PM +0200, Oliver Peter wrote:
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:26:36PM -0400, Ian Lord wrote:
...
Where can I change the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ?
Look in the
-Original Message-
From: Oliver Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 16 mai 2007 03:18
To: Jerry McAllister
Cc: Oliver Peter; Ian Lord; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs...
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 05:38:15PM -0400, Jerry McAllister
On 5/16/07, Ian Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Oliver Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 16 mai 2007 03:18
To: Jerry McAllister
Cc: Oliver Peter; Ian Lord; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs...
On Tue, May 15
On 2007-05-16 03:21, Ian Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Oliver Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 16 mai 2007 03:18
To: Jerry McAllister
Cc: Oliver Peter; Ian Lord; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs
Peter'; 'Jerry McAllister'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs...
On 2007-05-16 03:21, Ian Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Oliver Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 16 mai 2007 03:18
To: Jerry McAllister
Cc
Hi,
Everyday, cron is sending me status reports of jobs it ran.
In my /etc/mail/aliases I configured root: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it works
fine.
The problem, is that the mail is coming from
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
We have a spamfirewall and it rejects the mail saying
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:26:36PM -0400, Ian Lord wrote:
...
Where can I change the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ?
Did you set up your hostname correctly in /etc/rc.conf ?
Furthermore you need to tell your MTA how your hostname is called.
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On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 11:26:03PM +0200, Oliver Peter wrote:
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:26:36PM -0400, Ian Lord wrote:
...
Where can I change the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ?
Look in the file /etc/mail/aliases
You can alias root to go to your favorite address.
On Tue, 15 May 2007 12:26:36 -0400
Ian Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[]
The problem, is that the mail is coming from
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
We have a spamfirewall and it rejects the mail saying localhost.mydomain.com
is invalid.
Where can I change the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] to
a few months ago the following appeared in -stable
In the last episode (Mar 15), Niklas Saers said:
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Niklas Saers wrote:
I've got four servers that all have the same problem: when jobs get
started from Cron, they die after some time with an Abort trap.
Jobs that are
Greetings.
I'm seeing some weird output from the daily periodic cron jobs that run at
night. It's related to procmail but I can't figure out where in the
scripts that it's causing it. Anyone seen this before? running on 5.2.1
p-9. Ports and source update code nightly using cvsup.
Snip
getting
these mail messages below, it seems I have created, for example, cron
jobs as 'root /usr/libexec/atrun' in addition to the usual
'/usr/libexec/atrun'. It has done this for daily, weekly, etc. as well.
Can someone tell me what I did wrong?
Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Received: from
there. After I ran 'crontab -u root /etc/crontab',
have a look at
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#ROOT-NOT-FOUND-CRON-ERRORS
now I am getting
these mail messages below, it seems I have created, for example, cron
jobs as 'root /usr/libexec/atrun' in addition
On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 12:05, platanthera wrote:
On Thursday 13 May 2004 17:51, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
I am trying to create a quarter-daily cron job on my FreeBSD 5.2.1 as
follows in /etc/crontab:
05 0,6,12,18 * * * root periodic quarter-daily
I created the
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 send mail
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
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