Got a small problem, I'm trying to schedule a script to run every Thursday at midday and the scheduled tasks application on Ubuntu doesn't seem to work. The script is fine when I run it from a terminal.I have zero experience using cron at the command line, can anyone tell me what I should do?
View 2 RepliesI am running a series of operations on executable matlab scripts which are connecting python and fortran scripts. I schedule the executables in cron. The problem:
- My original matlab scripts work perfectly.
- My executables work perfectly if I run them from the terminal. - Using the gui scheduled tasks and running the scripts once from a button, everything also works fine.
- But when I leave the scheduled tasks run on their own, I get an error! The error can be that the script hangs in general (I have some text logs exported every step to track the progress), or I get an error which never appears when I run the script with any of the other mentioned ways.
- I tried both cron command prompt or the GUI scheduled tasks
- I am running on Ubuntu 64 bit
Basically what I wanted to know is, if we turn the computer off (or hibernate/standby) - what will cron do with the tasks that were suppose to be scheduled during that time period the moment u turn it back on? Reason I ask is because i have a backup scheduled for every single hour. And another one I want to schedule for every 15mins. If I turn my comp in standby overnite, I certainly don't want to turn it on in the morning to find cron doing like 30 back up jobs!
View 2 Replies View RelatedI run a Fedora 9 server at home, to host an "old school" MOO.To back up the database, I scheduled a cron job - and got some help with the script.I don't fiddle with stuff on the server much, because I don't really have a clue - leave well enough alone.But now I'm without backups. (I'd prefer to get this working, as it seemed pretty simple, and worked well for so long).
View 14 Replies View RelatedThe back.sh script is being run as user basil, whcih means that when it comes to copying the backup file to the target location you do not have the correct permissions to access the contents of the directory (it is rwx by root only).So, what do we do? Hoping it is ONLY the directory permissions which are fouling things up we have a range of options which, in not particular order of 'good', include:
a) change ownership/permission on target directory.
b) have the back.sh script run by the root user
c) set up sudo to permit the file copy to be done by root
d) use setuid on the back.sh to have it run, effectively, as root
A lot of the answer will depend upon what else the Dropbox directory is for. If it's JUST for your backups for this then I'd be inclined to:
Code:
chown basil /root/Dropbox
chmod g+rwx /root/Dropbox
which will permit the basil user full access and thus allow the file operations being done and give root access via the group permissions (not that the root user really needs this).Also, I'd be inclined to:
Code:
chown basil /home/xxxx/moo3/bin/back.sh
chmod u=rwx,g=rx,o= /home/xxxx/moo3/bin/back.sh
which will make things 'look' better, it just reinforces the point that the script is run (and owned) by the basil user.
i have made a search on this subject and i always find the cron to be the solution for me. But i am asking because i think what i want can be done differently. i have a command line to grab stream and save it. i want this command to be run at different time (hours) on specific days. i should use the "at", as far as i saw here on the forum. But are there other way to do it? can i have a simple script that i run the day of the event, before this occur?
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhen I try to launch it from the System Tools sub folder, I see it appear for a second and then it disappears. What should I do? This is the code displayed when I try running it from the Terminal.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have webmin on my linux server, I've made a cron job which requires a password to be entered after the command has been run.. all good. I noticed the cron job has the option "Input to command", where after many hours googling a can assume this is where you type input after the cron job has run (for example, a password?). I have tired putting the password needed for the job (the cron job is an ssh root@address) into this field however the output when running the cronjob is saying "permision denied" still.
Is there some sort of character I have to enter in this field, like
-p mypassword:
or
*mypassword?
or
"mypassword"
By default, cron jobs are scheduled to run at 4:40 IIRC. I have my computer set to suspend after half an hour of inactivity so, except for some all-nighters, pretty much every day at that time my PC is suspended. What happens to the cron jobs? I don't suppose they run while the suspension is in effect. Do they get run when the computer wakes up or does cron wait until the next day at 4:40 to run the jobs?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI need to create the following cron jobs:
job #1: runs Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sun at 9PM every month except for 15th
job#2: runs on 15th of each month at 9PM
job #3: runs every Saturday at 6PM every month
What is the correct syntax for this kind of scheduled cron jobs?
I want to add two separate tasks/jobs to Cron that needs to run every 10 minutes, but I would like the second job to kick off only 5 minutes after the first job. Is there any way this could be done within Cron?
View 2 Replies View Relatedmy favourite media player is Kaffeine. One reason is, that no other application has better support for DVB-T including channel tuner. Version 1.0-pre2 from SBo works great, with one limitation, though: Scheduled recording doesn't work. When I open the programme guide and select a programme to be recorded, Kaffeine reports that the recording has been scheduled. Then, at the scheduled start time, a zero byte file with the name of the programme is created, but it remains empty forever. Instant recording, on the other hand, works just fine. I am on Slackware64-current with all updates up to now.
View 2 Replies View RelatedIt is little weird now that cron job is not working as i have set. I have set weekly job to send email but i am receiving multiple emails daily. Below is my code; # sends email every monday at 4:00 am 00 04 * * 1 /usr/bin/ruby /home/mbm/www/current/script/runner /home/mbm/www/current/app/models/add_to_delayed_job.rb -e production
00 -> Minutes
04 -> Hours (0-24)
1 -> Days / 0-6 / Sun - Sat
Sending email is fine but the time is not working so far as set.
I make a script to automate burning backup files on dvd. It works fine if I start it from root user, but if I start it. From cronjob do noting. I try on growisofs the option -use-the-force-luke=force but nothing happens. I check the env of cron:
HOME=/root
LOGNAME=root
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
PWD=/root
SHELL=/bin/bash
SHLVL=1
XDG_SESSION_COOKIE=3e0d70f7b71074a0b1fff4bb4aa97d13-1281297181.926502-724038309
_=/usr/bin/env
and it seems ok i've got my script in /usr/local/bin and growisofs in /usr/bin
Code of my script below:
#!/bin/bash
bkup_path='/bkrepo/';
prefix='PAR*';
totdimfile=0
for FILE in $(/bin/ls -r $bkup_path$prefix)
do
dimfile=`/bin/ls -l $FILE | /usr/bin/awk -F " " '{print $5}' `
let "totdimfile += dimfile";
if [ "$totdimfile" -lt "4700000000" ]
then
NAMEFILE=`/bin/ls -l $FILE | /usr/bin/awk -F " " '{print $8}' `
ALLNAMEFILE="$ALLNAMEFILE $NAMEFILE";
fi
done
/usr/bin/growisofs -use-the-force-luke=force -Z /dev/scd0 -R -J $ALLNAMEFILE
/usr/bin/growisofs -M /dev/scd0=/dev/zero
/usr/bin/eject
end code of my script
How to schedule a job using cron that shouldn't run between working hrs 9am-5pm, while run in non working hrs every hour, every day of the month, month & week.I tried the following way, not sure I can use logical not operator(!).
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am new to Linux and have done an install of Moodle 1.9.8 on Linux OpenSuse 11.0
I have created my cron via the terminal (crontab -e) root crontab - see below:
When going to /var/log/messages my cron entries appear as they should but my backup does not run and every morning when I go to the Notifications tab it tells me my crom maintenance script has not run in 24hours.
I would also like to get this in a log file and emailed to me.
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
# m h dom mon dow user command
[code]...
I have two servers. One of them has a svn server running and another hosting projects.
I have a daily cronjob updating the projects -- ie running svn update, rebuild etc.
Now, my cronjob on the remote server works.
However, a similar cronjob running on the local server for local projects (ie the same server as svn) is instead displaying a "svn: not working copy".
I double checked the paths, permissions and user info and if the script is launched manually, it works fine.
Deploying the same thing remotely works.
I even tried using file:/// (suggested here http://www.hightekhosting.com.au/myaccount/knowledgebase/90/Using-SubversionorSVN-on-cPanel-Servers.html) but still nothing.
I am currently running a VPS with Ubuntu Server 10.10. I have been trying for a few days now to get some programs to run when the system starts, but with no luck. I am trying to use rc.local to do this, there is an:
/etc/init.d/rc.local - http://paste.monsterprojects.org/mpbjhwhbjzhbjrr (Was already on the system, I have not edited this)
and:
/etc/rc.local - http://paste.monsterprojects.org/mpbjhwhbkkkhwez
If i run the /etc/rc.local script manually all the programs start fine, and if i run /etc/init.d/rc.local start, all the programs start fine. But for some reason they just don't seem to be starting when the system boots.
I just want to know if a linux server got rebooted after a scheduled time(2/3 month), whether the performance improves. If improves why.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI need to make a scheduled backup of repository of subversion in ubuntu. E.g., backup the repository at 13.00 pm every Monday. May I need to write some hook scripts to do that? And I also have to recover the backup of repository. If possible, I want to backup the trunk of repository
my repository is project1
/project1
/trunk
/tags
/branches
I have a script(urls.sh) scheduled to run with Crontab at every hour. The script is all good and executes manually with [root@server cron.hourly]# ./urls.sh But the scrip is not executing according to schedule. This is what I see in /var/log/cron every hour:crond[4729]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly/urls.sh)My crontab look likes this:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
[code]....
I thought these were the same password?In-fact, they WERE the same password on the set-up I currently have.But now, weirdly, I can log in fine but I the exact same password is not using in order to perform admin tasks.I've tried a recovery mode, console, and then "password (username)" in order to reset the password.This does reset the password I need to use to log in, but the password still does not work for performing admin tasks
View 4 Replies View RelatedAfter I create a cron job to shred some documents it seems to start and then immediately stop. What am I doing wrong? For instance, here is my cron:
#!/bin/sh
DISPLAY=:0.0
PATH = /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin:
[code]....
I have a cron job to run every 15 minutes. The cron job is running per /var/log/cron. It lists the job every 15 minutes.
[Code]...
I do not see any errors. I also looked in /var/log/messages for any errors and it does not list any. I added a line to the script that is running to send an email to me to see if it is running or not. When I run the script from the command line, the script runs without error and I get an email. I have searched and can not find what it going on. Is there some where else errors might be? Could there be a permission issue? The cron job is not being added by the root user.
I set up a job in my crontab file to clear the /tmp file on bootup with the following line:
Code:
@reboot rm-rf /tmp/*
My /tmp folder is not clearing. I've never used cron before;
I'd like to get the information about automatization of the tasks in Linux, more specifically in Fedora with minimal installation (without graphical interface and so on).The application (developed in C) needs to be started automatically when the computer is initialized. I've read about cron but I guess it's not a solution in this case because whenever computer starts the application must run once.I also have read about the/etc/ rc.local file but I made some tests changing it and they didn't work, the computer starts asking me the login and password but nothing run after that.The inittab was the same. In this way, someone know how to initialize an application developed in C when the computer starts?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI want to have an if statement that does multiple things:
Code:
if [....] ; then
1=...
2=...
[code]....
I have a ts3.desktop file in my /usr/share/applications folder that I want to run on system boot. I have typed the following commands which don't work
Code: Select allcrontab -e
Then in the editor, I typed the following line at the bottom of file. I also made the necessary carriage return after this line.
Code: Select all@reboot gtk-launch ts3 /usr/share/applications
Then I pressed ctrl+o to save it.
After I put these commands in, I did the following command to troubleshooting this issue, see below.
Code: Select all$ crontab -l
no crontab for server
$ps -ef | grep cron | grep -v grep
root 532 1 0 21:35 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/cron -f
But after I reboot and nothing happens, the application doesn't start.
I'm trying to remotely schedule a shutdown using cron but I can't get it to work. I did setup the following 'sudo crontab -e'
Code:
For some reason doesn't this work, since I was able to login and get this output when using 'date'
Code: