Ubuntu Servers :: Cron For Root Does Not Run

Jan 28, 2010

Cron for root does not run,it's 8.04LTS ubuntu server,however Cron runs for other users,Can anyone help?i've checked many times that i have the right syntax.

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Ubuntu Servers :: Cron Job Doesn't Run Without Root

Feb 10, 2010

I am unable to run my cron tab job without root password.I made a little research on the forums and appearantly it should be changed.Must I change "passwd" part with my root password?

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Ubuntu Servers :: Root Mailbox Filling With Cron Messages?

Feb 3, 2010

I'm getting the following messages sent to my root account mailbox. It appears to be reporting an issue finding ntpdate, however when running the following command:

aptitude show ntpdate | grep State

It shows as installed and any ntpdate commands work with no issues, so I have no idea why this is getting regularly reported?

From root@mydomain.co.uk Wed Feb 03 18:20:01 2010
Return-path: <root@mydomain.co.uk>
Envelope-to: root@mydomain.co.uk
Delivery-date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:20:01 +0000

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Feb 16, 2010

I 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.

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Ubuntu Servers :: Cron Sending Email From Address / Change The Default Domain Name For Cron?

Apr 29, 2011

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.

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Ubuntu :: Running Cron As Root?

Jun 25, 2011

I have an external usb hard drive that spins down every 10 min. The commands in 'hdparm' do nothing to override the internal settings. So, I wrote a script to touch a file every 5 minutes, and it will run as root because of the mount command, and I want it to run for every user. The script is executable, owned by root, and root is the group, with 755 permissions.

no_sleep.sh in /usr/sbin:

Code:
#!/bin/bash
# Script to keep external drive from spinning down
diskmounted=$(mount | grep Backup | wc -c)

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Ubuntu :: Cron Job As Root Priveleged Access?

Sep 22, 2010

I have two users in my system. Admin(Root) , and "student". I am making a bootable USB with Ubuntu 10.04 with two partitions. What i need is a cron-job who copies some files that the student has made(from the first partition) onto a partition which he is not allowed to access. The way i thought it should be done was making a root cron-job which mounts the drive and then copies the documents, and maybe unmounts it again.

The problem with this is that, when i mount it, wouldnt it be accessible to the "student" as well then? Since i give him sudo-rights and mounts the drive in the background for him? Alternatively i could unount it straight after the copying is done, but then it would do this too often I guess.

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Ubuntu :: Run Rsnapshot From Cron Via Root's Crontab File

Nov 21, 2010

I am trying to run rsnapshot from cron via root's crontab file (crontab -e). If I run rsnapshot from the command line with sudo it works perfectly, however, if I run it from cron:

Code:
* * * * * /usr/bin/rsnapshot hourly >/tmp/crontab.out 2>/tmp/crontab.err
This does not work. The crontab.err file shows:

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General :: Cron Job Configuration - Log In As The Root User

Apr 15, 2010

I have done these steps. still its not working.

1. Log in as the root user.
2. I have created a file with name "reminder" in /root directory.
3. Create a /etc/cron.daily directory. Add a file called "taxrem", which reads a text file from home directory, so write a command in the "taxrem" : "cat ~/reminder"
4. Add command to /etc/crontab file. Based on the conditions I want, such as : 5 13 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily

There is no entry in the cron.deny file. Still I have not get any response on that scheduled time.

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Ubuntu :: Unable To Install The 10.10 - [9354]: (root) CMD (cd/run-patsreport/etc/cron.hourly)

Apr 16, 2011

I 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.

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Security :: Lots Of CRON Spam From Root. Normal?

Jan 25, 2010

Take a peek at this:

Code:
Jan 23 20:15:01 localhost CRON[22629]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Jan 23 20:15:01 localhost CRON[22629]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root

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Debian Configuration :: Get Cron To Send Messages In First Place Instead Of Root?

Mar 25, 2010

The system crontab (/etc/crontab) uses the same format, except that the username for the command is specified after the time and date fields and before the command.

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Every hour, I get an e-mail complaining about the first line of the crontab:

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I get the same complaint from the other entries: It looks to me as if cron, or anacron, is trying to execute the user (root) as a command. Predictably, the shell doesn't like it, so barfs and triggers an e-mail about it. Why is this not doing what the man page says it should do? The 2nd problem I believe is related to exim, not cron. The e-mails I'm getting above are being bounced from my ISP because they are directed to root@myisp.com, rather than my regular e-mail address. When the message bounces, it bounces to my regular e-mail address. In /etc/aliases, I have root: [URL]... and in etc/email-addresses I have root: [URL]... Adding the entry to /etc/email-addresses allowed the bounce to find me because the sender's address is [URL]... but how can I get cron to send these messages to me in the first place, instead of root?

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Ubuntu Servers :: How To Use The /etc/cron.d

Mar 17, 2011

I have this symlinked into my /etc/cron.d folder:

Code:

*/5 * * * * python /srv/bidsite/manage.py send_mail
* * * * * echo `date` >> /home/bidsite/what.txt

but it does nothing. What I really want to happen is the first line. The second line is just for testing.

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Ubuntu Servers :: Cannot Find A Particular Cron Job?

Oct 25, 2010

Ubuntu server 10.04:I had webmin installed on my server, but I found it was using too many resources for what it offered, so I went ahead and uninstalled it. I'm not sure exactly which version it was, but it was the most recent version a month ago. I ran the uninstaller which ships with webmin.Well, now everyday my root account gets the following email:

From root@DOMAIN.com Mon Oct 18 00:42:01 2010
Return-Path: <root@DOMAIN.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:42:01 -0400

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Ubuntu Servers :: Cron Will Not Run Rsync Job

Mar 30, 2011

I am running a headless Ubuntu server accessed through Webmin. The server is running 10.4.2 64 bit version. I have a number of cron jobs including a simple back-up job which is:
Code:
rsync -av /media/server/ /media/backup/backup/
All of the other jobs run fine but for some reason this job which is scheduled to run each day at midnight does not run. If I SSH into the server and run the job manually it works fine.

The output of 'crontab -l' is:
@daily rsync -av /media/server/ /media/backup/backup/
11 3 * * * /etc/webmin/package-updates/update.pl
@daily tar czf /media/backup/serversystem.bz2 --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/backup.tar.bz2 --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/media --exclude=/sys /
@reboot inadyn --username ********** --password ********** --update_period_sec 600 --alias **********
@daily /etc/webmin/backup-config/backup.pl 12978522112842

The output of 'crontab -e' is:
Error opening terminal: unknown.
crontab: "/usr/bin/sensible-editor" exited with status 1

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Ubuntu Servers :: Cron Isn't Working

Jun 18, 2011

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:

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Ubuntu Servers :: Setup A Cron With Screen?

Jun 7, 2010

I'm trying to setup a cron with screen. the purpose of running screen is because i want to resume to see the status of the job while it is running. anyone can enlighten me how i should setup my cron. I've tested with

00 14 * * * screen [command]

but the cron doesn't create a new screen.

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Ubuntu Servers :: 10.10 - Daily Cron Script Does Not Run

Feb 21, 2011

I'm with Ubuntu server 10.10. I created a script and put it in /etc/cron.daily. But looks it doesn't run (it didn't generate any log). The following is all I did.
Code:
root@chonseng1:/var/log# cat /etc/crontab
# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab
# Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab' command to install the new version when you edit this file and files in /etc/cron.d. These files also have username fields, that none of the other crontabs do.
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

# m h dom mon dow user command
17 * * * * root cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
25 6 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )
47 6 * * 7 root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly )
52 6 1 * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly )
#
root@chonseng1:/var/log# ls -l /etc/cron.daily/ntpdate
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 52 2011-02-18 13:22 /etc/cron.daily/ntpdate
root@chonseng1:/var/log# cat /etc/cron.daily/ntpdate
ntpdate ntp.ubuntu.com >>/var/log/ntpdate.log 2>&1

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Ubuntu Servers :: Cron Is Filling Up Logs?

Sep 1, 2011

I am using my ubuntu server as my home router.Everything is working as expected with one exception.y DSL modem is a POS and every now and again it looses connection to the router. Sometimes it needs to be reset and sometimes it does not.Either way, when this happens my ubuntu server needs to reacquire an IP from my ISP. If it screws up when I'm at home it's no big deal, but if it happens when I'm not around my housemates have taken to hitting the reset switch on the server. I'm not a big fan of this so I wrote a script to ping my ISP's gateway. If it's unavailable it bounces the eth0 interface and tries to get an IP. I am running this script every couple of minutes in a cron job. Now I'm getting syslog entries like

Code:
Aug 9 20:31:01 portal CRON[9602]: (root) CMD (/opt/ChkAndFixNetwork.sh)
every few minutes. This is annoying and makes the logs useless for troubleshooting. I

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Ubuntu Servers :: Cron Jobs At Reboot Not Working

Jul 13, 2010

Have a headless server running Lucid 64 bit. Everything is working great except for a couple of Cron jos I'm trying to have run at boot.

My user crontab looks like this:
# m h dom mon dow command
01 * * * * /home/ceallred/Scripts/SambaBkup.sh
@reboot /usr/bin/SpiderOak --headless &The SambaBkup script works like clockwork...

The SpiderOak job doesn't start. It works if I type the command in manually.
syslog only shows:Jul 13 22:45:33 RavenWing cron[1010]: (CRON) INFO (pidfile fd = 3)
Jul 13 22:45:33 RavenWing cron[1022]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok)
Jul 13 22:45:33 RavenWing cron[1022]: (CRON) INFO (Running @reboot jobs)
Jul 13 22:45:33 RavenWing CRON[1048]: (ceallred) CMD (/usr/bin/SpiderOak --headless &)Yet ps -A doesn't show a running SpiderOak process. It shows after starting manually.

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Ubuntu Servers :: Getting My Shell Script To Run On Cron.daily?

Sep 30, 2010

My backup script works fine after some effort to get it where I wanted it. So the script is fine when I run it.

sudo bash backup.sh

now I have a sym-link to /etc/cron.daily but I do not see any new backups

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Ubuntu Servers :: Bash Script Error - Cron Job

Nov 13, 2010

Code:
#!/bin/sh
chown -Rc steven:users "/home/steven"
I have more lines in the script but each line does the same error. This is run in a cron job but it always returns.

Code:
chown: cannot access `/home/steven
': No such file or directory
But it is a valid directory I have even tried adding an / and even a space on the end and still same error.

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Ubuntu Servers :: Getting Emails From Failed Cron Jobs?

Jan 16, 2011

I recently set up exim so that I could test emails sent from my php sites. I have now been getting daily emails that either report errors from cron jobs or report a failure to send emails to root@cory-laptop or cory@cory-laptop about cron errors.I first of all don't want mail sent to the above addresses, because they are obviously not actual email addresses. Second, I'd really prefer not to get emails when an email failed to send to these addresses.

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Ubuntu Servers :: Cron Doesn't Echo To File?

Mar 27, 2011

I have a script, echoSmart.sh:

Code:
#!/bin/bash
smartctl -a /dev/sda > /smartlogs/sda-$(date).txt

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Mar 17, 2010

I wrote/cobbled-together this nifty sendmail script to read some logs and take some disk stats. basically i'm reporting on rsnapshot. When I run it as

Code:
sudo /etc/rsnapshot/mailSta.sh
Everything works wonderful and the emails arrive as expected and fires off an email to two accounts at a remote server

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Jul 1, 2010

I made a Bash script that is fired by a Cron job every morning. It dumps an SVN backup on some Samba shared drive. I would like to know how I can make sure the job worked correctly without having to verify the shared drive every morning. Right now, I take the job's output, save it to a log file and send this file by email. But the ouput isn't so great.

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Ubuntu Servers :: Cron Job Backup - External HD No Longer Mounted

Dec 23, 2010

I'm running a cron job every night to dump a MySQL database to an external hard drive. It works, however when I check on it the following morning the external is no longer mounted and the XFS log file is corrupted. If I run

Code:
xfs_repair -L /dev/sdf1
It works, but then I get these issues:
Code:
XFS: Filesystem sdf1 has duplicate UUID - can't mount
I can reset the UUID, but it's difficult to have to do this every day.

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Ubuntu Installation :: Cron's /etc/cron.daily/apt Not Upgrading?

Feb 25, 2010

It seems that cron is not upgrading my Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server, no GUI installed. I changed /etc/crontab and watched apt running:

Code:

ps -A | grep apt

showed it for a long time,

Code:

sudo tcpdump tcp

showed communication with canonical sites,

but:

Code:

top

did not show any apt using CPU

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Sep 19, 2010

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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Fedora :: No Output From Cron Jobs In /etc/cron.daily

Jan 29, 2011

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.)

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