I've just discovered that crontab is creating a new file in the root directory every time it executes a cronjob, and it doesn't erase over the old file so there are thousands of files in the root directory, they have the same name as the script file (appended with a numeral) but are all blank.here is what one of the cronjob's looks like[URL]
View 10 RepliesI've currently got a crontab line that looks like the following:
Code:
*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/php -q /etc/backend/cron.php | mail -s "Cron script output" whiteydude@gmail.com
The script works fine - it runs every 5 minutes and checks if certain environmental variables are set in place - if they are, it prints an output. If they're not, it dies.
The problem is that when it dies, it still sends me a blank email - one every 5 minutes, every time the cron job runs.
telling it not to send if it's blank?
I'm assuming some type of dirty awk script could do this, but I don't really know my shell well enough to do that.
I'm not good at putting these things into words, so let me write some psuedo code to explain what I mean:
Code:
*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/php -q /etc/backend/cron.php | if (STDOUT != '') { mail -s "Cron script output" whiteydude@gmail.com }
EDIT: Unfortunately I'm running on CentOS, so I can't use mail -E . Apparently that's a FreeBSD thing.
When I setup crontab as a local user (settings shown below), then it can pop-up a xmessage windows * * * * * DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/bin/xmessage -center "warning message here" but when I switch to root, and setup the same things in crontab, why it cannot pop-up a xmessage windows? Any special limitation for root to use crontab?
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View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a question about using crontab with /etc/crontab...
I had a cron job that I needed to run as root. At the time I thought that sticking it in /etc/crontab would be a good idea. However, I used the crontab command to edit /etc/crontab, which I guess is not standard procedure? Specifically, I configured /etc/crontab as my local user's crontab (i.e. sudo crontab /etc/crontab) then added my cron job as I would a local user crontab (i.e. sudo crontab -e).
Originally, my cron job looked like this:
30 * * * * root /my/batch/script &> /dev/null
After adding the new cron job I started seeing errors. Something to the effect of "can't find command root" or something similar. So I removed the 'root' user definition from the cron job and the job started running fine. However, because this is /etc/crontab, there are other system related cron jobs that have been defined to run under the root account (e.g. "17 * * * * root cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly" runs as root, etc.). So these pre-existing system cron jobs, which up until now have been running smoothly, are now generating "can't find command root" errors. But I think that the system cron jobs _are_ successfully being run someplace because logrotate seems to be working.
So what I _think_ is happening is that /etc/crontab is being run twice: once as the system crontab, and once as my sudoed local user's crontab. When I run crontab -l I see nothing, but when I run sudo crontab -l I can see the contents of /etc/crontab. I am reluctant to delete my sudoed local user's crontab, because then in the process I would be deleting the system crontab, and I do not know how I should restore the system crontab's contents. (I am still not sure as to the most appropriate way to edit the system crontab).
How can I get out of this mess? I want /etc/crontab to go back to the way it was before--running _once_ as the system crontab. As for my new cron job, I'm willing to reconfigure it anywhere so long as I am still able to run it as root. Any ideas? (I am using Ubuntu 8.04 Server LTE)
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Quote:
#!/bin/bash
#Script para borrado de ficheros y PDFs de /tmp
### Directorios/PDFs a borrar
[code]....
Actuaaly i am creating watch on one directory in which files are continuously coming.Is there any command which can give listing of all files who have come in last 24 hrs.
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I'm using crontab for user ABC in a month and have no problem.. But today i want to add new schedule user ABC with crontab.. i found this error
/tmp/crontab.XXXXDYxb6a: Permission denied
so i check with crontab -l command, it can show my schedule.. If I use root, crontab -e and crontab -l work properly..
Note: ls -al /tmp
drwxr-xrwx 8 root root 4096 Aug 6 09:30 .
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Jul 19 17:10 ..
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Jul 19 17:20 .font-unix
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#lxpr weekly cron job - Kickstart generated entry
0 1 * * 0 /opt/lxpr/lxpr -st /var/lxpr
#lxpr monthly job to clear down old dumps - Kickstart generated entry
0 1 28 * * find /var/lxpr -name "lxpr.`uname -n`*" -type d -a -mtime +30 -exec /bin/rm -r {} ;
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Code:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/disk-img/25GB.ext3 bs=1G count=25
Is this recommended? I'm using block size as 1G which is really huge, so I was wondering, if this is actually recommended. From what I read, some said that it's only advisable to use 4096k or lower, but what I found was that these suggestions are very dated (year 2003), and it is now 2010, so I would like to know if it makes any big differences.
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Code:
Subsystem sftp internal-sftp
Match group sftp
ChrootDirectory /home/sftp_users/%u
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[code]....
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Here begin my questions:
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