I messed up when I chose my server for slackpkg updates, I chose one for Slackware13 rather then Slackware13 64. This caused some issues when I accepted the updates. I got a fair bit up and running again, but one thing that seems to be messed up is my cron.hourly scripts. I am not entirely sure what happened, but they are not running.
View 2 RepliesI have an rsync script I wrote that I have tested and it works perfectly when I run it manually. Now I am working on a server setup script and I have gotten my setup script to create the rsync script in /etc/cron.hourly and restart crond. To spite the fact that the script is in /etc/cron.hourly and I have restarted crond, the script does not run. With that said, how can I script adding the rsync script to run hourly as a cron job?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have Compaq Presario CQ62-215DX notebook (laptop) computer with built in image of Windows 7. I use partitioning tool to create partition of 250GB hard drive. I created these partitions as NTFS partition. My issue is after creating partition of 75GB whereby I want to install Ubuntu using ubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386.iso file from dvd drive; I cant install.
I use ext4 file system to install ubuntu and mountpoint is root After user setup it stops at this point:
UBUNTU CRON [9354]: (root) CMD (cd/run-patsreport/etc/cron.hourly)
It doesnt install ubuntu on separate partition. how to install ubuntu on separate logical partition? Windows 7 is in primary partition.
I have just updated current to get the new kernel and things seem to have gone just a little wrong.After upgrading i edited lilo.conf and ran all seemed fine so i rebooted to find my pc wont boot it cannot find modules and there will be trouble ahead it think it says (will check the error and add it).So i thought no problem i can just boot from an old disk i have laying around and fix it from there. I only had the 12.2 install disk or ubuntu 8.10 live cd neither of witch support ext4 which i stupidly decided to format my drives in.
Anyways i now have a ubuntu 9.10 disk and have booted and try to fix things but am miffed at whats going on. If i chroot into my slack root and look in my /boot there is only the old files before the update, but if i mount the drive in ubuntu there are the new files from after the update.What has happened and how can i fix it? It has just occurred to me i could use a tmp dir and copy the correct /boot files there then in the chroot copy them to /boot may work ?
I set up a job in my crontab file to clear the /tmp file on bootup with the following line:
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@reboot rm-rf /tmp/*
My /tmp folder is not clearing. I've never used cron before;
Some of you are probably not going to believe this, but I've been using Linux for like four years and have never used cron for task scheduling before. Now I want to and I'm not sure how to do it. Could somebody link me to some good info? The results of a Google search were kinda confusing.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI'm going to rebuild a computer for a friend of mine. I'm going to install 12.2 in it and wanted to see if there was a way to install patches automatically from a cron. I don't think slackpkg can do such thing as a cron, correct? For anyone that set up a Slackware box for someone with little Linux knowledge, how did you handle the ability for the person to update the box?
View 13 Replies View RelatedSo, my mother is out in the deep country and all we can get is Xplornet Satellite internet. They have a fair access policy (FAP) that says they will (and definitely do) throttle your speeds if you download more than 50MB or upload more than 5.5MB in one hour. This restriction resets hourly. As you can imagine, this is fairly limiting, but we have to live with what we have as there are no other options specifically where we live. Right now, I have Conky configured to show the ${totalup wlan0} and ${totaldown wlan0}, but that is per session. In this example, since the computer started, 8.74MB have been downloaded and 1.95MB uploaded. However, this information is somewhat irrelevant as we really only need to know the current usage starting at the top of the hour. Maybe even show the previous hour too.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI am trying to setup a cron job using crontab entry like this 6,16,26,36,46,56 * * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail -k>/dev/null 2>&1 But nothing is happening This is the first time I have attempted using cron as I have settup mutt for my email which is now working great but I would like to have the mail collected every 10 mins The file is saved as mailcron in my /home folder. When i run crontab -l its listed ok but no mail is appearing in mutt.
View 10 Replies View RelatedI was thinking of creating a little audio alarm clock with an mp3 and mpg123 to play a song from a cron job each day. How do you specify the time of day to execute a cron job?
View 4 Replies View RelatedBy 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?
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2010-10-27 01:57:32,aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd,host1
2010-10-27 01:57:32,aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd,host2
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Can 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.
I 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.)
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.
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*/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 played around with KDE and eventually messed up. My right click on the desktop doesn't work and the panel goes from the original color to black when I extend it. I even lost the "clickable" in the upper right part of the desktop. I already tried System Settings > Desktop > Defaults > Apply. Doesn't work for me.How could I revert to the default settings?
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One of the problems is that on the Dell there is a /dell utility partition at the beginning of the disk, so I can't really move that to put a /boot partition at the beginning.Oddly, Lucid had no such problem. Lucid installed and recognised Windows XP, but when I try the same install procedure with Meerkat I draw a blank.
I recently decided to study c programming, and I am using the vi editor under Redhat. But the other day I did a fat finger at my #include header file in the vi editor and now all words "include" are all highlighted blue; if i type in another include as soon as I finish the word it automatically highlights blue. How can I undo this
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