I got some crontab records and everything works fine. I installed mail server recently and all cron notifications started to come into my inbox. I'd like to receive only notifications about cron errors. I would rather not filter all notifications off.
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Is the crontab saved in case of server restarts?
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#!/usr/bin/perl
$opt = 1;
switch($opt) {
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View 3 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)
I use the following code to send make-up file dialy via sftp with expect. When I run it from command line, it has no problem sending to the remoteSERVER side, but when it is running via crontab task, it did not do the put, so did not execute the batch file defined in -b option.
#!/bin/bash
#!/usr/bin/expect
curDate=`date +%Y%m%d`
filename="$RESULTS/make-up.${curDate}.001"
newname="make-up.${curDate}.001"
remoteDirName="/Inbound/PPP"
tempcmd="$RESULTS/tempcmdFiles"
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How to set crontab not send mail notification to the owner script if the script success running? because I'm monitoring mail server, and notification from cron is not necessary for me. I'm using ubuntu 10.04 server
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Besides being RIDICULOUSLY big, i don't need them
I don't know if it is the same, but they look like this:
NOTE THIS PICTURE IS JUST AN EXAMPLE I FOUND ON THE INTERNETS - I WANT TO DISABLE ALL NOTIFICATIONS
Kernel 2.6, Slackware 12.0
mkisofs 2.01
I do 'mkisofs -iso-level 1 -o image John Smith.txt'. Only an example. When I mount image, ls outputs john_smi.txt. So it has shorten to 8.3 and translated ' ' into '_'. This is in accordance with the manual, although it doesn't say the conversion will be done.
Quote:
-iso-level level
.........................
With all iso9660 levels from 1..3, all filenames are restricted to upper case letters, numbers and the underscore (_).
...........................
However, as it did not reject the file name, it should have converted it to all upper case, it seems to me. And -iso-level 2|3 does the same thing.
Code:
root@darkstar:~# mkisofs -iso-level 1 -o image John Smith.txt
Total translation table size: 0
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 0
Total directory bytes: 0
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is it possible disabling a crontab job without deleting the crontab description entry (by crontab -e)?I could also accept to change the entry itself. Now it's:0 0 * * 0-6 /home/me/cron/script.csh
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Some presetting is required?
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