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Run a cron job on the first Monday of every month?
I'd like to run a job from cron at 8.30 on the first Monday of every month. The cron Wikipedia page says
While normally the job is executed when the time/date specification fields all match
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sudo access to view/edit a crontab
I wish to be able to edit, or at least view, a crontab that is on a server.
Should I not be able to run this to do so:
sudo crontab -u root
When I do, I get this error:
Sorry, user crmpicco is ...
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Crontab Error Emails: Set Sender to Root Using -f
For a crontab entry in this format,
*/1 * * * * /usr/bin/php /app/<userid>/command --flag='value'
I see this message emailed to <userid>@host (and view via mail) at one per minute:
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Issue pushing file from linux to windows with smbclient
I have a file located on my linux box that is generated by a python script, the file is dropped inside of the /root/ directory
My bash script looks like so:
#!/bin/bash
# Run the HR Data feed
cd ...
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How do I make cron run a Java GUI application?
I have a script which runs a Java GUI application using "java -jar app.jar". I have added the script to the crontab to run every minute, check the processlist if the application is up. If it isn't it ...
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Why does cron task run twice?
I have a task that should run each day in Ubuntu10.04. So I use crontab and copy the scripts of the task to the directory /etc/cron.daily.
Here is the my crontab:
# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab
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What happens if cron.daily is not terminating
Today I had to realize that some cron jobs werent run on my server! In the log files I find this:
Mar 13 03:30:01 osp-server anacron[7261]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2012-03-13
Mar 13 03:30:01 ...
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What do slashes “/” mean in crontab?
I'm seeing slashes in some crontab examples, I don't understand what they mean?
Check this one out for example
*/10 * * * * /home/ramesh/check-disk-space
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Simple Cron task in Mac OS X Lion
I am trying the Cron facility in Mac OS X Lion, but it does't seem to work.
The crontab looks like this:
MacBook-Air-de-Vincent:run vincentle$ crontab -l
MAILTO=bxxxxxxxx@gxxx.com
* * * * * (echo ...
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Multiple crontabs for one user
is there a way to use multiple crontab files for one user? Thinking something along the lines of crontab file per project instead of crontab per user...
Any help is appreciated...
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crond in /etc/init.d does not run
I am running linux fedora 16 (Laughlin). the crond daemon is not being run by my machine in my etc/init.d directory.
This is the ouput from ls -lut
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2793 Jun 29 2011 crond
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How to recover crontab jobs from filesystem
On my system I have fedora 13, which I can't get to boot right now.
I'm now running ubuntu 11.10 from a different partition.
From ubuntu I can read the fedora partition.
In fedora I had some cron ...
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randomised cron command
I'd like to write a cron command so that a job would execute once at some random time during the week - is this possible without having the crontab modify itself? I've considered writing a function ...
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I can not find specific cron running at *:21 and *:56 on Debian
I am frustrated. I have two mystic crons running on our server, that I can not find by doing crontab -l. The good thing is these crons are sending mails. That is how I know those are running at :21m ...
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Crontab crash when running a script that insert alot of lines in MySQL
My crontab is crashing when i run a script that insert alot of lines on MySQL Database, but when i run a script that inser few lines it run properly, is there some configuration file of cron? maybe ...
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Disable cron jobs for a specific user
I have a list of jobs in the crontabs for user1, user2. I want to prevent the jobs of user2 from running.
I tried listing user2 in cron.deny, but that only prevents him from accessing his crontab. ...
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Cron job not working consistently
I have a cron job:
1 0 * * * /usr/bin/wget -q -O /dev/null 'http://123.456.78.90/index/parsedata?&today=1'
It should gather a bunch of data from the DB at 12:01am each day, organize it for use ...
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Background Jobs from cron
I am running a cron on every two minutes. From the cron I am running other shell scripts in background with "&". After cron exits spawned shell script process still runs, this is desired behavior. ...
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Why isn't crontab working for me? (Ubuntu 11.04)
I can't get the crontab jobs running. I've checked /var/log/syslog and the scheduled jobs aren't there. I've edited the jobs with
sudo crontab -e
so they are created for root.
This is how my jobs ...
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Shellscript does not run from crontab
This script runs fine in terminal but not as a crontab entry:
#!/bin/bash
value=$RANDOM
while [ $value -gt 1800 ] ; do
value=$RANDOM
done
sleep $value
notify-send -t 7000 -i ...
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crontab -l output to file
I want to be able to output my current crontab to a file, in order to check and append it automatically.
crontab -l > somefile
creates an empty file. There must be a simple way of doing this, ...
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Crontab script on Mac OS X Lion does not work anymore
I have a problem with cron tasks. Previously this script worked fine on Mac OS X 10.6 server, but when I initialize it on Lion (client), this script stopped working.
Basically, this .bat file calls ...
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Open a terminal from a Crontab
How do I get a gnome-terminal window to open from a crontab?
I have tried this:
* * * * * /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
* * * * * source /home/user_name/.bashrc ; /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
* ...
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crontab day of week vs. day of month?
I added this to /etc/crontab on a few different linux & freebsd systems:
# monthly reboot: 3rd Tuesday of every month
56 07 15-21 * 2 root /sbin/shutdown -r now
I want a reboot on the 3rd ...
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Bad minute in crontab?
I get the following error in my syslog:
Oct 17 13:14:03 tracker cron[873]: (*system*) ERROR (Syntax error, this crontab file will be ignored)
Oct 17 13:14:03 tracker cron[873]: Error: bad minute; ...
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If I restart crond, will scripts get interrupted?
I am changing my /etc/crontab file.
When I execute
service crond restart
will my jobs/scripts that just begun executing by crond be terminated or not ?
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How to set CRON to execute a php file outside of a public html folder?
I have a php file located at, let's say, for example:
/data/web/process.php
This file is not publicly available (no virtual host is running in that folder, but apache is installed). I need to ...
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How can I change the directory a command thinks it is running in?
How can I run a command that is in a different directory so that the command thinks I've ran it in the current directory?
If a command is using basename() or argv[0] (or whatever it's called) to get ...
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How do I add a job to cron?
So, here's what I did:
Logged in as root via Shell
Typed crontab -e
Typed */30 * * * * /path_to_website/cronjobs/cron.php
And now what? How do I save it? I just closed Putty and then logged back ...
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Do jobs in root's crontab still execute when logged in as another user?
I have edited my root's crontab. Will root's cron jobs still run when I'm logged in as another user?
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Cancel a cronjob or an automatically loaded process on OS X
I'm currently being bugged by Mail.app popping open every friday at the same time and simultaniously I receive mails from an app iBackup which I used to have installed.
I would like to get rid of it ...
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Crontab : Permission denied
My crontab (running as user) contains the following command
00-59 00-23 * * * /usr/bin/smbget -R smb://192.168.10.32/Data -u USER -p PASSWORD
But I am getting an error as
You don't have ...
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Cron not executing jobs
I'm having trouble making cron work.
I edit my cron jobs doing
sudo crontab -u myuser -e
sudo crontab -u myuser -l prompts my cron tables:
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*/1 * * * * /home/myuser/Projects/scripts/cron.sh
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View the event list of a cron file
I have a relatively complex set of cron jobs running and it would be really useful for me to ask the system for the list of the next n cron tasks that will be performed.
So given a particular ...
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Difference between /etc/crontab and “crontab -e”
What is the difference between the crontab located in /etc/crontab and the crontab that can be edited using crontab -e?
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Only email on cron errors for jobs in cron.daily, cron.hourly, etc
I have several cron jobs that run (in /etc/cron.daily, /etc/cron.hourly, /etc/cron.weekly, etc.) and email root@localhost with the results. I'd like to stop those emails if the jobs are succeeding, ...
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How to create folders according to date in Linux?
Is there any other short/easier and smarter way to do the following in Linux?
cd /home/abcd/dammi
mkdir $(date +%Y-%m)
cd $(date +%Y-%m)
mkdir $(date +%d)
# RESULT : /home/abcd/dammi/2011-05/26
cd ...
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How to setup crontab on dedicated server to dump WordPress MySQL database and email it to a Gmail account
I know I can do a mysql dump for my WordPress databases on my dedicated server. But I want to do this automatically, and I want the dump to be emailed to my Gmail account. Is this even possible?
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different way of editing crontab
I have two ways editing crontab
1. edit /etc/crontab, then restart crond
2. crontab -e crontab
in both cases I am logged in as root.
what are the differences?
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How to get log of running cron job
How can I tail the running cron job, so that I can come to the conclusion that my job is going on.
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RHEL6 Crontab doesn't work properly?
In RHEL6 root's account I have crontab job:
30 6 18 4 1 /sbin/init 6
It worked fine on the 18th of April and properly restarted my system, BUT it also restarted my OS at 6:30 on next Monday - ...
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Deleting files and emptying trash using cron
I'm new to making crontab files and I decided to try and make a job that would delete the contents of my Downloads folder, and then empty the trash. This is what I have:
0 9 * * * rm ...
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From what context is a cron task executed?
I am asking this question after royally destroying a Linux box. Let me give you some background so you know where I am coming from.
I currently have (well... did have) a RedHat Linux box running ...
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How to execute a php file with crontab?
I have ubuntu setup with lamp and I was wondering what I would type to start a php page say at 2am everyday. I am still studying how crontab works so I can't test to see which one works.
So if I ...
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How to specify default MTA?
I'm trying to use the MAILTO function in crontab on my mybookworld (it's a NAS)
I've installed a rather unfamiliar (i think) MTA: ESMPT
With mutt (console based email client) it works perfectly. But ...
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How can I automate or script daily downloads for any new anti- virus databases, and then have the program scan my drive?
(I know there are much better softwares out there for the Mac so please don't go there! The politics of this company dictate which Anti virus we have to use)
Anyway without any further wait:
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how to run cron jobs on GMT not local time?
How can I make cron jobs run on GMT, not local time?
this is my crontab file:
#m h d m wday command
TZ=GMT
5 0,6,12,18 * * * ~/Documents/bash/transfer.sh
my jobs seem ...
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Cron ignoring an update to crontab
I've commented out a line in the crontab on a debian server, which I guess was there by default yet was causing me to get error emails every hour:
# m h dom mon dow user command
17 * * * * root ...
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Cron that needs more time than he's allowed to
My crontab runs a cron every 5 minutes... If the cron needs more than 5 minutes to run, can this be a problem??
Can the problem be with the commands the cron runs?
Thanks for your answer ;-)
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cron can't read PYTHONPATH environment variables?
I have added to the PYTHONPATH on my server's .bash_profile file. However it appears that cron isn't reading from it because I am getting import errors. If I run the exact command cron calls on the ...
