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Hi On 6/10/09, James Bensley <jwbensley at gmail.com> Hi all, I don't know what exactly is causing this, but I can't find cron / crontab on my CentOS 5.3 machine. Yes, I know, it's an obvious one, install it. But, it is, according to rpm: [root at zaxen01 ~]# rpm -aq | grep cron anacron-2.3-45.el5.centos crontabs-1.10-8 I have tried yum update crontabs, and then it said there

Hi, What's the best/safest way to "cat" the following job into crontab? */3 * * * * /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_megaraid_passive.sh > /dev/null 2>&1 I am used to doing this manually via crontab -e, but now I simply have too many centos servers to build in a given week (get to toss another 120K at some more 2U chenbro/tyan/amd64's -w000ooo). -karlski

Really quickly: Would anyone know how I might add a crontab entry via a script (bash)? I'm attempting to write one to schedule commands at certain times. Is this possible? Thanks. -Jose

Well, I feel silly.? There are three places MAILTO can affect crond: /etc/crontab, /etc/crond.d/0hourly, and /etc/anacrontab.? Once I set this in these 3 files, I started getting mail from crond.? Thank you all for your help. --- Chad Cordero Information Technology Consultant Enterprise & Cloud Services Information Technology Services California State University, San Bernardino 5500

Hi all. Can anyone help me with scheduling tasks? I'm running Centos4.2 (updated via yum starting from 4.0). I know I have vixie-cron and anacron packages installed (came like that, from first install, I guess). I read the crontab syntax man page (man 5 crontab) and I made an entry as a normal user (using crontab -e) that looks like the following: 30 0 9 1 1 /bin/ls -F /home/jose >

On Thu, July 20, 2017 8:54 am, Richard wrote: > >> Date: Thursday, July 20, 2017 02:25:52 +0000 >> From: Richard <lists-centos at listmail.innovate.net> >> >>> Date: Wednesday, July 19, 2017 23:31:10 +0000 >>> From: Chad Cordero <ccordero at csusb.edu> >>> >>> It???s being rejected before it even reaches the mailbox, so

hey centos long time no hear! :) I'm having a small issue where the backup jobs that I set to run in the crontab of the backup user do not appear to be running. Here's how I set it up (with crontab -e as the backup user): run amanda every night (check at 2:45 and backup at 3) 45 2 * * * /usr/sbin/amcheck /var/log/amanda/crontab/amcheck.log * 3 * * * /usr/sbin/amdump

Hi! I''am using crontab for creating an email list every night on daily basis. It works perfectly. And use it for other things also. But my problem is that i can''t get crontab to work for armailer, i would like to have a crontab for ar_sendmail -o but can not get this to work. Any one who have the same problem or even better a solution. Thanks Svea -- Posted via

What is the ramifications to simply placing scripts in the /etc/cron.hourly directory as opposed to actually adding jobs via the crontab -e method? Is there any significance to using one method versus the other? Thanks! jlc

It?s being rejected before it even reaches the mailbox, so forwarding won?t work.? Crond should really be using the MAILTO variable and it?s not. --- Chad Cordero Information Technology Consultant Enterprise & Cloud Services Information Technology Services California State University, San Bernardino 5500 University Pkwy San Bernardino, CA 92407-2393 Main Line: 909/537-7677 Direct

Hi, we experience difficulties with crond behaviour sending mail since CentOS 8.1. The cron job is the same like we used in CentOS 7. crontab -l /usr/bin/python3 -c 'import random; import time; time.sleep(random.random() * 3600)' && /usr/local/bin/backup.sh backup.sh writes the backup to the remote backup server. There are around 30 machines with the same cron job. The python

Is there a "puppetized" way for puppet to create a resource file from an existing crontab? Here''s an example of what has worked for me: $ crontab -l * * * * * date > /tmp/date.log $ ralsh cron Could not run: You must specify a name or title for resources $ crontab -l | awk ''!/^ *#/ {print "# Puppet Name: item-" NR ; print } '' | crontab $

Hello, The following cron job is failing to run: 00 16 * * * root ruby /home/nathan/rails/notifications/script/runner -e production Notifier.deliver_summary My understanding from the Rails Wiki is that this should do it. Can anyone shed some light on what I may have setup wrong? Thanks! Nathan Mealey Operations Director Northeast Region Pilgrim IT, LLC NORTHEAST OFFICE 1

> Date: Thursday, July 20, 2017 02:25:52 +0000 > From: Richard <lists-centos at listmail.innovate.net> > >> Date: Wednesday, July 19, 2017 23:31:10 +0000 >> From: Chad Cordero <ccordero at csusb.edu> >> >> It?s being rejected before it even reaches the mailbox, so >> forwarding won?t work.? Crond should really be using the MAILTO >>

Everyone, I am building a gateway server with a new : CentOS Linux release 7.3.1611 (Core)??with 3.10.0-514.2.2.el7.x86_64 kernel. Everything was going find, but I was not able to get a particular cronjob to function properly that contained a perl script with Astro::Time as an include file. Astro::Time was installed with the use of the cpan module downloaded from the Centos repositories. The

Do you need cron installed for the files in /etc/cron.daily/ to execute? Did a Centos 6.x minimal openvz install and noticed cron is not installed by default and after installing mlocate cant help but wander if it will be updated without it.

Hi all, Who takes care of cronjob in /etc/cron.d ? Should we tell crond to run it? /etc/crontab only mentions hourly, daily, weekly, monthly -- Thanks Fajar

The problem with vixie cron is wider (and more funny) than I expected. Here''s my proggy which allows hiding files of any kind and size into crontab entries (remember, quota is ignored ;-): -- cron_put -- #!/bin/bash echo "Vixie cron 3.0.1 file storage - put utlility" echo "by Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@staszic.waw.pl>" echo if [ "$1" = "" ];

> Date: Wednesday, July 19, 2017 23:31:10 +0000 > From: Chad Cordero <ccordero at csusb.edu> > > It?s being rejected before it even reaches the mailbox, so > forwarding won?t work.? Crond should really be using the MAILTO > variable and it?s not. > In my testing, this worked as advertised. Changing the "MAILTO=" in /etc/crontab from the default

On Feb 27, 2020, at 08:01, Tobias Kirchhofer <collect at shift.agency> wrote: > > ?Hi, > > we experience difficulties with crond behaviour sending mail since CentOS 8.1. The cron job is the same like we used in CentOS 7. > > crontab -l > /usr/bin/python3 -c 'import random; import time; time.sleep(random.random() * 3600)' && /usr/local/bin/backup.sh Is