I wrote a simple script to see if firefox is running. However, the ps command is not executed, when I open the logfile I see: "DEBUG LINE 4" and not DEBUG LINE 5, so "ps -e" is never executed despite using the full path of the ps command.
Here is my script:
#!/bin/bash -l
# simple script to test if firefox is running...
PS=/usr/bin/ps echo "DEBUG $LINENO"
$PS -e | fgrep firefox echo "DEBUG LINE $LINENO"
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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
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echo "" >> /var/log/performance.log
/bin/date >> /var/log/performance.log
[code]...
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Linux crontab format which I am using :- MIN HOUR DOM MON DOW CMD
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Some presetting is required?
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Code:
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The timing was simply a test run. My syslog gives the following error:
Code:
(CRON) error (grandchild #4309 failed with exit status 62).
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Code:
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For some reason crontab does not work on my system.
Fedora Core 11
I am running from a Virtual Private Server.
Code:
Code:
Having an odd problem running a mysqldump via crontab. I have the script running on other servers and they work fine, so not sure how to actually troubleshoot, but the script looks like the following;
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I created a file which in I tried both :
Code:
MAILTO=""
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What is the difference between the crontab located in /etc/crontab and the crontab that can be edited using crontab -e?
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### BEGIN INIT INFO
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