I would like to schedule a cron job to run on every first saturday of the month, so far all documentation that I have looked at, mentions only a weekly cron or a monthly cron based on the date. Is it possible to run a monthly cron based on the day of the week?
View 1 RepliesHow 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(!).
crontab -e
0 !9-17 * * * /path/to/script/file
I guess other way is
0 17-8 * * * /path/to/script/file
I'm trying to use cron to schedule a script I wrote.in the terminal I'm typing sudo cronbut i get this message back.cron: can't lock /var/run/crond.pid, otherpid may be 3332: Resource temporarily unavailablewhat's going on here? how can I schedule my script to run?
View 2 Replies View RelatedHow 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 want a service to be start at 8:00 and be ended in 14:00 automatically i already do this manualy by:
/etc/init.d/myservice.sh start
/etc/init.d/myservice.sh stop
i think it should be related to cron jobs.
I am attempting to schedule a task to run every hour. I have altered the crontabs for my account but the the task still won't run on the hour.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have added some executable scripts to /etc/cron.daily but don't get the stdout/stderr output from them as mail (or anywhere else I have found). At least one of them is running (because I can see that it has added a file to the disk).
The peculiar thing is that I do get the output from /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch (part of the logwatch package) as an email each day.
The MAILTO line in /etc/crontab is "MAILTO=root" (unchanged from default). Same for /etc/anacrontab.
I do have an alias at the end of /etc/aliases which redirects root's mail to my own account, but this alias works fine for mail I send manually. (It also appears to work fine for the output from the file /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch.)
Does anyone know how to schedule a Fedora box to automaticly shutdown and then resume later at a specific time?Shutting down is easy, but I have found nothing about the restarting part.
View 14 Replies View RelatedHow can I schedule some shell scripts at certain time and upon certain actions (on start, shut down, etc...)??
View 1 Replies View RelatedIs there such a schedule on this or other Fedora oriented sites? Livna currently installs 256.xx and I need 260.xx for CUDA 3.2 apps. Tried installing 260.19.04, 260.19.12 and 260.24 direct from Nvidia (while removing nouveau driver) on an updated F13 and startx fails.
View 3 Replies View RelatedIve tested this on 2 different machines each running Fedora 15. If I try to install gnome-schedule the system reports nothing to do or that the software is already installed. If I try to remove it the system reports that gnome-schedule is available but not installed. Anyone know how to approach this?
View 2 Replies View RelatedCan anyone tell me how i change the default domain name for cron?everything i cron runs it emails from and to user@com.com
this leaves me with a massive list of failed mails in postfix.i have mailto on my main crontab but i cant do it on all of them.
It seems that cron is not upgrading my Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server, no GUI installed. I changed /etc/crontab and watched apt running:
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ps -A | grep apt
showed it for a long time,
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sudo tcpdump tcp
showed communication with canonical sites,
but:
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top
did not show any apt using CPU
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I put in my cron entries to run my backup script which rsyncs my data to my 2nd drive, however on a hunch I checked my backup drive which mounts automatically via fstab and I realize it had not ran in a while. I checked cron and there were no entries for it. I got to wondering if I should ever be worried about a cron update coming down and over-writing my existing cron file with the backup entries in it to run.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have set up a cron in /var/spool/cron/root
*/15 * * * * /usr/bin/phplist.sh
I can see in /var/log/cron that it is running every 15 minutes but it has no effect. It is not doing the commands in the bash script.
If I run /usr/bin/phplist.sh right in the shell it works great.
Is my vixie-cron broken? i have "0-59 * * * * root /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf" but it is not running in /etc/cron.d.
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I'm trying to find how to schedule a process to start at a specific time (not on start up). How would I schedule a process/application to start at a specific time (if it matters, it will be a background process). For instance, have process abc start every weekday at 5am. I've done this for windows many times though have only been using linux regularly for a few months and haven't figured out the best way of doing this.
So far the best solution I have is to create a program that will start on boot and have it check the time and sleep until the required time and then start the required process(es) at the required time(s). But this seems more of a hack since I'd expect there to be a proper way of doing this.
I create a shell file with different commands . I am able to execute it manually . Now I want to schedule this file hourly . For this where I place this file and where I configure for time .
View 6 Replies View RelatedI can't seem to get a cron job to work on my Fedora 11 box. When I check the logs, cron is actually working. In my /etc/crontab I have an entry to run the cron job on my Moodle installation:
30 * * * * wget -q -O /dev/null http://moodle.name.name/moodle/admin/cron.php
when I run crontab -l it is not showing me anything, I am confused
I'm playing with CRON to perform an automated shutdown. While I'm testing I want CRON to shutdown the PC every 10 min. Here is the crontab.
# crontab -l
0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * root /sbin/shutdown -h now
I see the command being run in the CRON log, but the PC doesn't shutdown.
Feb 11 11:06:17 localhost crontab[4808]: (root) LIST (root)
Feb 11 11:07:31 localhost crontab[4813]: (root) BEGIN EDIT (root)
Feb 11 11:07:58 localhost crontab[4813]: (root) END EDIT (root)
Feb 11 11:10:01 localhost CROND[4821]: (root) CMD (root /sbin/shutdown -h now)
How would I debug this to figure why my shutdown command is being ignored?
i have couple of question first when i m running my php script file named myindex.php and while its running in browser i add this code in putty to see if it shows my php script is running or not but i see nothing ps aux |grep myindex.php | grep -v grep
why i cant se if myindex.php is running or not with above command.
second how can i add a cron job to my php script, i know only through kloxo or cpanel.
Just installed Fedora 11. Like to setup cron job to update everthing on a regular basis. any examples?.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI wish to run a cron job every half hour, where exactly do I put the job? The reason I am asking is that I am used to entering jobs into crontab, I am not used to using fedora and its cron layout.
View 2 Replies View RelatedJust read through some cron manuals. (man -k cron).Didnt understood that much though.I'm a gamer and loosing control over time at nights.
So what i want is that my computer shuts down itself at latest 1:30 am. Do i need to set up the command for each day (monday, tuesday.. and so on) or is there an option simliar to my 'example' below?
€dit: Both examples should do the trick.
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# m h dom mon dow command
30 1 * * 1,2,3,4,5 shutdown -h +5 Get some sleep dude!
30 1 * * 1-5 shutdown -h +5 Get some sleep dude!
Where as 1 to 5 would be all weekdays, but not saturday or sunday morning at 1:30am.If i can shorten it to 1 line instead of 7 lines (one per day of week) that would be great.
I have a Fedora 11 box and I am confused about cron, where exactly do I enter the cron jobs? For example, I have a job that needs to run every half hour.
View 8 Replies View RelatedIn my windows machine I have some txt files. I want run a script or command daily to get those file to my linux box using cron job.
Windows (192.168.1.5)
d:
ecords est.txt
to
Linux (192.168.1.
/data
I want to run that script in my linux box every day at 10.30 AM using cron job to get those files from windows to linux.
I found (Red Hat Fedora Core 6 Server) a CRON entry for "backupmng" that has repeats at 1,16,31 and 46 minutes every hour of every day, 24/7.It is located at:/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/backupmng >/dev/null 2>&1.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm experiencing a problem with cron.hourly running mcelog.cron on Fedora 11:Quote:mcelog: warning: 18446744073709551600 bytes ignored in each recordmcelog: consider an updateI've read a dead end email thread here from February 2010 describing what I am seeing on Fedora here:Does anyone have any insight into this problem? This is relevant portion of strace(1)ing mcelog which shows /dev/mcelog is open()d and configured correctly:Quote:
open("/dev/mcelog", O_RDONLY) = 3
ioctl(3, MTRRIOC_SET_ENTRY, 0x7fff13129bac) = 0
ioctl(3, MTRRIOC_DEL_ENTRY, 0x7fff13129ba8) = 0
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All my cron jobs are configured to email output to [URL] Text content comes through, just fine. I have several cron jobs that output HMTL, however cron's output email displays the html tags as-is as text, instead of html. example: <br> Anyone got lucky being able to send cron output emails in html format (either by configuring fedora or through command line)? I have tried the following command lines in fedora crontab manager with no luck
TRY 1
CONTENT_TYPE=text/html /usr/bin/php /full/path/myphp.php | mail -s 'email subject' myemail@mydomain.com
(cron executes, but sends email as a text email, not html email)
TRY 2
/usr/bin/php /full/path/myphp.php | mail -s 'email subject' myemail@mydomain.com
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I cannot debug or resolve on a Fedora Core 8 machine. The problem exists in a Fedora 11 machine as well. I have a script that changes the default gw (I have 2 providers) if the link is down. The script runs very well when I call it from the terminal, however when I try to set a cron job to run it, it hangs in the middle of the script. I don't have any idea of what is happening, or how to debug but it seems to hang when running a command like: route add default gw [ip]
I can publish the script here, but it's fair an simple and the algorithm is:
- start
- Find out the current GW
- Find out the alternative GW
- Ping the current GW and capture the result
- if we have a fail then change the default gw to the alternative Gw and send an email, else do nothing
- end
The cron job is run as root, so I don't think this is a rights problem.