Questions tagged [crontab]
Crontab is a short form of cron table. It is a configuration file that specifies shell commands to run periodically on a given schedule.
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How to stop a service using crontab?
I am trying the following code inside crontab and it works for starting the service but the stop part doesn't work!
25 10 * * * systemctl start python-script 2&1 >/dev/null 26 10 * * * ...
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How to test cron @reboot entry?
How can I test if @reboot is working without the need of reboot the machine?
Is there anyway to force @reboot to entry to run?
Thank you.
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Why is cron daily jobs starting to work 7 minutes after midnight and suppose to do that at 6:25?
I have Ubuntu 18.04 and installed automysqlbackup to backup all of my MySQL databases. For some reasons, it started to “kill” my MySQL databases (and IPS forum running with this database is not ...
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pacmd command run in local crontab does not work
I am trying to run certain commands at startup to allow my Audio to be FIFO Piped into a file.
If i run the commands (either manually or in a script) it works fine. However when i put them in my local ...
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Updating Debian Linux via crontab
I am trying to have my Raspberry Pi do its own update weekly with the following command
Not certain which one to use because running the command with su root fails on my terminal.
59 2 * * 1 root ...
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mysqlimport gives error when run as cron job but not interactively (Ubuntu 14.02)
I have a bash script which downloads and then imports a CSV file into a local MySQL. The database is MySQL 5.6 on Ubuntu 14.04, I'm loading data with the following statement (bash):
mysqlimport --...
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Executing a script on boot in lubuntu 19.04 to connect to VPN (rc.local and crontab issues)
I am new to Linux and I am wondering how to make my virtual machine with Lubuntu 19.04 automatically connect to a VPN on boot. the VPN I chose is Proton VPN and I have to execute this command to ...
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Apache-tomcat stops at regular intervals
I need to start tomcat every morning. One thing I suspect is there is a crontab written to clear the Catalina.out at Midnight, does it lead to stopping of tomcat by any means?
echo '' > /opt/apache-...
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cron output sent by mail instead of to file
On Debian 9.11 I added this to root's crontab:
* * * * * echo $PATH &> /root/TMP.log
I expected PATH to be written to the file, but the result is an empty TMP.log and the output sent to root ...
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crontab -e run as root and not as user
When I am login as a user (lets say: John) to may linux (Ubuntu 18), I run the command:
crontab -e
I then entered a simple command:
python pythonFile.py
I was expecting the job to run under user "...
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“Must be connected to a terminal.” in screen
I'am using a script for an automatic server restarts after crashes etc. It's a fiveM(GTA V) server. Everything is workin on crontab, and there are some lines in this script to check out if server is ...
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Run a cronjob on every month 2nd thursday [duplicate]
I want to generate a report by executing a python script. This script has to run on every 2nd thursday of a month, 3.30am . How to achieve this.
Below code might work, if the dates are fall under 8-...
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Restart ea-tomcat85 from crontab
I have written a script to restart tomcat service
# timestamp
ts=`date +%m-%d-%Y_%H:%M:%S`
echo "$ts: Restarting ea-tomcat85..." &>> /home/account_name/restartservice.log
ubic restart ea-...
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How to disable/block crontab for non root users in Ubuntu
I have a server with Ubuntu 16.04 and create users per website. I want that those users could not run crontab -e command. Those tutorials do not work:
https://www.thegeekdiary.com/how-to-prevent-non-...
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Convert crontab commands to systemd?
I am using crontab in centos and I am having many problems such as some commands are not executed or simply not running any and simply deleting the crontab file and putting the same lines back is ...
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What effect is using /etc/cron.deny supposed to have?
Does adding a user to cron.deny deny cron jobs from running or the ability to edit the crontab file?
The man pages say:
Running cron jobs can be allowed or disallowed for different users. For ...
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Stop Cron job at 5:30 pm
I need to hace a a cron job which runs every minutes, everty days but only .
I want to stop this cron job running on Sundays between 4pm and 5pm - it should start again after this time.
How can I ...
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how to add timestamp to file names when moving them to cloud storage using cron job in ssh
I have built an ftp server on google compute engine that receives data from on prem systems as csv. I want to move this data after receiving it to a google cloud storage using a cron job from the vm ...
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Run missed cronjobs when computer turns on
I have some cronjobs running at certain times of the day but sometimes my computer is switched off when they are scheduled to run.
Is there anyway for these to run as soon as the computer is turned ...
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Is it possible to reboot a linux server with a crontab script when the server hangs/freezes/becomes unresponsive?
Is it possible to reboot a linux server with a crontab script when the server hangs/freezes/becomes unresponsive?
If so, how can I do it ?
All help will be greatly appreciated!
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script with “export” command in a crontab
I have this in cron tab: * * * * * /root/attente.sh and attente.sh : export attente=$(cat /root/switchboard.txt)
If I run export attente=$(cat /root/switchboard.txt) in a shell it works but not in ...
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Attaching to a screen session on boot
What I'm trying to do is start a screen session on boot via crontab and then have the user automatically connect to that session.
Here's my current cron file:
# Edit this file to introduce tasks to ...
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My production server was breached and I found this script. Is it a decoy?
A few days ago my VPS came under heavy load from spammers trying ssh attacks and script injections. I have since added new fail2ban regexps and new security measures for REDIS where it looks like they ...
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Crontab Running Script Every Minute
I am currently trying to schedule a cronjob to run a .sh script file every minute.
This is my simple script:
#!/bin/sh
echo "Hello World" >> /Users/navania/crontab-scrip.log
I saved this on ...
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Cannot autorun a bash script at the startup
I'm using Linux Mint Cinnamon 19.
I've written a simple script
#!/bin/bash
#test
notify-send "text" "other text" -i dialog-warning
to notify me when it's executed.
In order to run the ...
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Crontab returning ambiguous redirect error
Can someone please help? I have a crontab code that was running normally until yesterday... Somehow now it´s returning "ambiguous redirect" error. I´ve created the cron file using crontab -e
MAILTO="...
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Crontab segmentation fault
For some reason, my crontab is giving me segmentation fault (core dumped) error when ever I attempt to access it using crontab -l or crontab -e.
Everything is fine if I access the root crontab or ...
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Cron Behavior in HP-UX
I am trying to monitor my server through a script which is run by cron in HP-UX environment. However, an if-else condition is not working correctly when run by cron. For example, if certain condition ...
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cron job not executing the binary in the time specified
I would like to check which is the environment being used if executing a cron job. I had it working before however it stopped at some point.
This is my cron job in the crontab file:
20 13 * * * /usr/...
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Script started by cron is unable to execute iptables command
i wanted to run cron file on boot and execute system command, everything works well, but if i'm calling iptables command with some arguments like:
iptables -A INPUT -s 192.168.0.161 -j DROP
command ...
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Crontab Sends blank email
I am writing a cron job that sends an email from a file using sendmail. Running the script manually works fine and uses the contents of the file.
My script is just this
#!/bin/bash
sendmail me@...
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Crontab in HP-UX is not accepting scripts to be run under 1 hour
I am trying to run a monitoring script on my server where I need to monitor the health status of the server. The script needs to be run every 5-10 minutes. Following is the attempt I had.
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How do I make a python script executable on macOS Mojave?
Alternatively, I'm having trouble getting a crontab to run a python script, and I thought this would solve the problem. If you happen to know how to make a crontab run a python script, that would be ...
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Executing the commands stored in a crontab
I have setup a few commands to run every night using cron. When I don't leave my laptop running overnight, these commands will not be executed. I can't use anacron because it's not available on my ...
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Screen as a Service on Ubuntu 18.04
I have an application that occasionally closes due to some runtime error or DDOS attack.
The application runs inside a section of the Screen, so I need to access the server and type the command screen ...
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How to schedule a cron job to run every tuesday between specific dates of every month?
I want to run my cron job at 4 AM on every Tuesday between 4th and 24th of every month. Can someone help me with this. It shouldnt run outside the 4-24 range. Inside this range, it should run only on ...
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How cron job works
I am new to linux.
I have a cron job 'A' which should run every week
i used crontab-e to set it let say 3rd march 15:00 i did this.
Now today (6th march) i have to add another job 'B' which should ...
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How to know why crontab job is not executed
I have set several cron jobs. I recently added a new cron job that copies a file of last day from another server and is executed each day (for example at 06:00 am) but when I check next day the file ...
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How can I run a script through crontab with a value input for the script?
im trying to run a script with crontab on linux as follow,
i create a script for a incremental backup.
when i excecute in the command line/usr/bin/diego-backup.sh complete the script creates a ...
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Cron runs only once instead every minute
I'm trying to run a script every minute (on a Docker container running Ubuntu 16.04).
The /etc/echo.sh simply echo the word "hi"
cat /etc/crontab
* * * * * root /etc/echo.sh > /var/log/cron.log ...
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How to check cron modified time?
How to find cron job modified time in Ubuntu, For Example: when the cron job has been modified or changed.
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Crontab runs but doesn't execute
My crontab looks like this
* * * * * /opt/PPP/update_playlists.sh >> /var/log/cron.log 2>&1
*/5 * * * * /opt/duckdns/duck.sh >/dev/null 2>&1
(I set to every minute for testing ...
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How to start a service at startup
I am using Ubuntu Server to make a Kodi box. I'm using kodi-standalone-service to do so. I have made a shell script (sudo -S <<< "password" systemctl start kodi) to start kodi. When I run it ...
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How to check whether my script ran successfully in crontab
I am new to Unix and I need some help to know how to check whether my script has picked by crontab and ran as per schedule (not manually).
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Linux Crontab backup not working for a folder in root
I have a directory located at root...
cd /
li
drwxrwx--- 8 root fred 4096 Nov 3 15:28 ourdirectory
Created a sudo crontab command...
20 8 * * 1-7 sudo tar -cpzf /mnt/backupdrives/backup.tar.gz /...
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gzip command is not working in shell script [closed]
If I run my script through crontab, gzip is not working fine. If I run the same script manually gzip is working.
The command we have in our script is
gzip -vf $path/file.eee
In my script I am ...
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How can I execute all commands in crontab subsequently?
Consider a complicated crontab of +100 lines where a lot of scripts are run subsequently to poll & process messages from different clients.
Upon reboot of the server, I trigger some scripts of ...
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How to handle daylight savings in cron jobs
I have a cron job on an amazon ec2 machine (Ubuntu 16.04) that is supposed to run at 2:00 AM Central time.
The cron job is scheduled using UTC time. Since Central time is currently UTC-5 (we are in ...
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How to use brew in crontab
I run an alias in my .zshrc file every day.
alias buou="brew update && brew outdated && brew upgrade"
I want to run it by crontab on my macOS v10.13.6
I made a file called ...
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cron job not running /bin/bash: user: command not found
I'm trying to run a cron job that executes a script as a user using crontab -e on ubuntu server 16.04 LTS. The script is and located in /data/autoremove.sh:
!/usr/bin/env bash
if ping -q -c ...
