General :: No Output From Top Command Run By Crontab?
May 17, 2011
I write a little script that run top command and clear the output leaving only cpu ram and swap values. If i run the script manually everityng works fine but when i schedule the cript to run every 5 minutes from /etc/crontab all run fine but the output of the top command doesnt appear in the log :
This is the cript :
#!/bin/sh
echo "#############################" >> /var/log/performance.log
echo "" >> /var/log/performance.log
/bin/date >> /var/log/performance.log
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May 3, 2011
I have this code that is 'bashed' regularly with crontab and basically it will send me an E-Mail of most of the output but it misses out some of it!
Here is the crontab code to automatically run the script:
Code:
So that sends me an E-mail with most of the output of the following code:
Code:
It sends me everything up to echo "*******" "Begin compressing and transferring files" "*******" but it wont output the tar bit.. so it should give me a list of files that have been tarred.
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Apr 27, 2010
I am using Linux 64 bit Redhat Linux. I am trying to setup simple crontab as follow...1. Edited crontab file using crontab -e2. Listed the file once to verify it using crontab -l. This will display as.. 18 5 * * 2-3 ksh $HOME/testScript.sh > $HOME/testscript.out3. Logged in a root and restarted cron deamon using "/etc/init.d/crond restart"As per my understanding now my testScript should start running at 5:18 am Thuesday
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Aug 26, 2010
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).
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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Jun 15, 2010
I am scheduling a command for a specific time every day.
Linux crontab format which I am using :- MIN HOUR DOM MON DOW CMD
30 08 10 06 * /home/mach/script.sh
Some presetting is required?
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Oct 14, 2010
How to break strings of command into multi-lines in crontab? e.g.
Code:
# the following is a very long a gruesome command to be run at 09:59 Monday to Friday.
59 09 * * 1-5 source $HOME/some-definitions; sh /usr/local/my/long/name/application/bin/hello $(date +\%Y\%m\%d) >>/var/log/my/long/name/application/log/hello.log
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Nov 18, 2010
I have install RHEL5 and created normal user as "test". When I login as root user, I can run crontab command but when I login as test user, I can't run crontab command and throws error as "cron/test: Permission denied". how to enable crontab command for test user as well?
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Sep 16, 2010
My Problem: The output redirection auf a script works if the script is called in the terminal but not when its called via crontab.
My Situation: I have 2 scripts:
~/backup1
Code:
echo backup a to c
rsync -a -v --progress --delete --exclude=.Trash-1000 /path/a/ /path/c/backup/
echo backup b to c
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Jun 16, 2010
I have created a small script to compile a network weathermap using the cacti RRD files. The script reads the *.conf files and outputs an html and a png file. When I manually run the script it works normally.
I have edited my crontab with the crontab -e command to run this script every minute
The problem is script itself works when I manually call it but when it is run using crontab it doesn't do anything. The cron.log shows that the script IS being run every minute with no errors but the files (html and png) do not get written. What am I doing wrong and how do troubleshoot this?
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Jun 23, 2011
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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Jan 6, 2010
I'm new to mail via the CLI, so bear with me. I have this line in my crontab:
Code:
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Which does check my mail every 5 minutes fine. But I get the command-line output mailed to
[code]...
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Aug 8, 2011
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Here is my script:
#!/bin/bash -l
# simple script to test if firefox is running...
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Quote:
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Quote:
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In Unix
Code:
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Code:
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According to above output nothing will be displayed for
Code:
ls -ltr | awk '{print $9}'
ls -ltr | awk '{print $8}' will give test as ouptut in Linux.
I wanted to check the output format for ls -ltr, Anyone using Unix systems may paste a sample output of the command ls -ltr..
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Code:
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