Questions tagged [cronjob]
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Cronjob for first day of month except sunday
I have such entry in my crontab:
0 0 1-2 * 1-6
It is correct that it would run at 00:00, 1st or 2nd day of the month from Monday to saturday?
For example, if 1st day will be sunday then it would not ...
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cronjob for creating two files with 2 GB of size each
I need to create a cron job that runs every hour.
This cron job should create two files, each 2GB, one should be created from /dev/urandom and the other one from /dev/zero and should be written to a ...
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Running a cron job every five minutes
I need to run a cron for sync command. Is it as simple as this?
*/5 * * * * --sync
Which I think will run the sync command every 5 minutes.
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Enabling crontab logging on openSUSE
I am trying to enable the crontab log on openSUSE 11.3. I searched the web but couldn't find how to do it. I only find information about Ubuntu. Tried editing the /etc/rsyslog.d/remote.conf file but I ...
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Why this cronjob wont run
On debian squeeze as user root I add this cronjob with "crontab -e"
*/1 * * * * root /usr/sbin/ntpdate ptbtime1.ptb.de >> /var/log/ntpdate.log
But this cronjob will not run, there is also ...
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I created Cron but I get errors that don't really understand
I created a crontab like this:
0 22 * * 2 /bin/echo " Hello World "
0 1 * * * /bin/echo " Test"
but I receive mails like this, what does it mean?
Subject: Cron /bin/echo " Test"
Content-Type:...
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Cron Job Command To Delete 0 Byte Files
I need to have a Cron Job, that when it runs automatically deletes all of the files inside of a folder that are exactly 0 bytes.
The script I am using allows users to enter their username so it ...
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Mac Crontab Deleted
I was messing around with creating cron jobs and somehow I wound up deleting crontab out of /usr/bin. Does anyone know of a way that I can recover it without having to re-install multiple components ...
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Issue in running cron jobs in RHEL5
When I try to run cron jobs from root, I am getting the following error. I am using RHEL5. Can anyone help me?
[root@localhost]# crontab -e
Permission denied
You (root) are not allowed to ...
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Schedule a cronjob start everyday automatically [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a way to have Linux run a command every X minutes?
I want to run a command which will be synchronize my remote folder data to my local computer.
command is sync -ave '...
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synchronize folders which are located on different servers [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Synchronise system changes on two computers?
how to synchronize two folders which are located on different servers. I need that if someone put any data on folder A then it ...
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Schedule a cronjob everytime it is done
I have a cronjon which runs every 48 hours. But ideally what I want is that it must start running as soon as it stops. Can this be done? It is an sh script consisting of a python command.
I am using ...
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Where to store cronjob script?
I'd prefer to not keep it in my /home/myusername directory. Is there a best practice of where to store your shell scripts for cronjobs? At the root level?
I'm running ubuntu server 12.04 right now.
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Why does this crontab file only run once?
I have the following crontab file:
2 * * * * /bin/date >> /home/jon/date_from_cron.txt
I think this means "run every two minutes". However, it only runs once. Shortly after setting up this ...
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CronJob for asterisk queue to reset + FreePBX
I am having problems with this script...It doesn't seem to work.
Note: It sends email just fine.
#!/bin/bash
#Reset the queue every morning at 5:00AM PST
#v 1.1 changed email
#Email alert that ...
