I am running to a weird issue: for some reason when I try to run a crontab script which has these two operations:
#!/bin/sh
DATE=`date +%F`
but when I reduce this script to the first sql backup only and I use another cron job to put this dump file to the folder it goes through...weird isn't it?so 1+2 in 1 cronjob don't work but 1 in 1 cronjob and 2 in another cronjob it works perfect. any thoughts?
I am a xfce user. I have a list of wallpapers and I wanted to change them every 5 minutes Initially I was using a simple command in crontab entry to change it, Quote: */5 * * * * xfdesktop --reload it was working but it would crash xfdesktop process after few changes and the screen would be all grey. To solve this issues I wrote a simple script which would check if xfdesktop is alive and if yes it would call xfdesktop --reload else start xfdesktop I called this script idesktop & its path is ~/.bin/idesktop
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We have configured a script to be run at specific time using crontab.
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# crontab -l
as per the crontab entry script should run every day 11.15 a.m
Every time when the script is executed i get a mail but when i run it using crontab it doesn't send any mail.
However when i execute it manually i get the mails.
Even the execution is getting logged in cron log.
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So I have this on my /etc/crontab:
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# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab
# Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab'
# command to install the new version when you edit this file
# and files in /etc/cron.d. These files also have username fields,
# that none of the other crontabs do.
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I 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).
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"/tmp/crontab.XXXXfMOnRS":2: bad minute
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My present working is
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Now I want to run "python scons/scons.py" located in
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linux:/home/anisha/downloads/mapnik-0.6.1/ #
I tried
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../../python scons/scons.py
From the above stated PWD but it resulted in the following:
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bash: ../../python: No such file or directory
What is the way to execute a file of some other directory from the PWD!
Running following script for checking root ssh login status.
Code:
Flag=`cat /etc/ssh/sshd_config | grep "^PermitRootLogin"`
if [ -z "$Flag" ]
then
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I have a USB modem on a Debian install that I want to be able to use AT commands to diagnose, specifically for obtaining signal strength (RSSI). I know the command for this is AT+CSQ but I cannot seem to get the interface for issuing AT commands to work.
The modem is using /dev/ttyACM0 and when I try to use minicom, I type in AT commands and nothing is echoed to the screen (Yes, echo is turned on). Maybe I just don't know how to use minicom correctly.
Code:
#!/usr/bin/awk -f
BEGIN{ FS=":"}
{
"groups "$1 | getline grps
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i just want to know whether we can execute the commands in invisible mode in linux. i.e.the command we typed must be executed but should not be visible.is it possible.
if not,then how the password we are typing is not visible in linux,while creating or entering password for users.
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Is there any way that i could automate this job using a script or so?
i have n files and each file has 5-6 .sql files.Now I need to wrie a shell script that executes all the n files in parellel and for each n file the .sql files sequentially.eg
CRM_File CM_file AP_file
crm_file_1425.sql
cm_file_5789.sql
ap_file_4124.sql
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run CRM_File CM_file AP_file in parellel and each file under CRM_File,CM_file,AP_file sequentially.