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crontab not working properly

When I run a script manually using root it is working fine. when I execute the same script inside cron it is not running. I checked the cron is actually calling the script but the script is not ...
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Make shell script commands to abort after certain timeout

I have often a situation in Linux shell scripts that if a specific command takes too long to run e.g. due to a network problem the shell script should abort running this command. What best practices ...
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How can I write a cron job to archive my log files every night?

I assume this is relatively easy but my shell scripting isn't that great so I'm hoping to get some help. I have a task which runs every hour and appends its output to a log file. I'd like to move ...
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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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JAVA main class not found when using Apple auto-ingest tool

I am trying to setup a cronjob to download my daily and weekly reports from iTunes Connect. I have downloaded Apple's Autoingestion.class and I have made the following shell script to download the ...
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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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How do can I update a Form using shell/bash script on Linux?

I am wondering is it possible to echo values like below described? The situation is - there are too many "doc" files named like "PLCI507_01234567.doc", and there is a Form in a text file named ...
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Run Script every 30 Seconds on Mac

I have created a cronjob that runs every 60 seconds which is not frequent enough for me. It is a simple command: wget localhost How can I run this commenad every 30, 16 seconds on my mac?
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with a shell script, it is possible to tell when it's run with cron vs run manually?

with a shell script, it is possible to tell when it's run with cron vs run manually? UPDATE: it was asked why I want to know. My cron job will be logging, and i want to be able to log if someone ...
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Crontab + .sh + php

I'm trying to call a shell script every 5 minutes, witch executes php file under root. # crontab -l */5 * * * * /home/regularuser/call.sh permissions: -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 162 Jun 6 ...