similar to: crontab and/or anacrontab ?

Hi, I just configured SquidAnalyzer, a nifty little network statistics tool that I'm using mainly in school networks to monitor network usage. I want to run the '/usr/bin/squid-analyzer' script once a day. I took a peek in /etc/cron.daily, and the package already installed an /etc/cron.daily/0squidanalyzer script. I wanted to know at what time CentOS ran the cron.daily scripts,

Hello Pete, On Mon, 02 Jul 2018 09:59:17 +0100 Pete Biggs <pete at biggs.org.uk> wrote: > > > > So, service is running but what could happen that makes /etc/cron.* not > > being fired? > > You don't say, but if this is CentOS 7, then cron.daily/weekly/monthly > is run using anacron, not cron. Oops, yes CentOS 7, sorry. For the record: # service anacron

> 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 >>

> > So, service is running but what could happen that makes /etc/cron.* not > being fired? You don't say, but if this is CentOS 7, then cron.daily/weekly/monthly is run using anacron, not cron. It's configured in /etc/anacrontab and is usually run once a day by the script /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron - cron.hourly is still run by cron. If the script doesn't exist, then

Hello there, I've just noticed that scripts in /etc/cron.{daily,weekly,...} are not launched for several weeks (I noticed a `locate` not finding a recently added binary). Exactly, it's since June 02, and `# service cron status` says: Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status crond.service * crond.service - Command Scheduler Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/crond.service; enabled;

Hi all, I wanted to schedule some rsync backups and found that CentOS is by default using anacron. I'm mostly used with the historical cron, but let's follow the progress :-) - I made a shell script in /etc/cron.daily/dobackup - I made it 755, root.root. - In /etc/anacrontab, START_HOURS_RANGE=21-23 (I kept the other lines unchanged) - When I manually run /etc/cron.daily/dobackup, it

Hi, Up until now I always kept my servers up-to-date manually. Currently I'm experimenting with yum-cron to automate this process. I read through various online tutorials, and now I have a couple questions. 1. As far as I know, when editing /etc/yum/yum-cron.conf, I can only use the following value for update_cmd : update_cmd = default If I understand this correctly, 'update_cmd =

On one system I am missing /etc/log/rpmpkgs I believe that this file is updated by some cron job, and maybe I just have not had this system powered up at the right time for the job to run. Though I had thought that if a job was scheduled for a time the computer was off, it would run sometime soon (with some definition of 'soon') once the system was on again. On another system, I

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 all I have a '/etc/cron.daily/push-to-backup' script which the content is: #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/rsync [... long options line ...] echo "finished pushing to the backup" Launched manually, it's OK. Waiting for cron to execute it, In the "/var/log/cron", I see the starting time and the finish time, and I see it take about 10 minutes to make the job.

I made a script to backup a folder on a remote server it works manually, I set a cron job to launch the script every 2 mins (for test), I sse in the log this line Mar 13 13:10:01 debian /USR/SBIN/CRON[6302]: (root) CMD (root /usr/bin/backup.sh) but when I sheck the remote server nothing is done, any sugestions pls

For some reason I cannot fathom, cron.hourly runs twice each hour on one of my two CentOS-5.4 systems, as reported in /var/log/cron: ------------------------- Mar 16 14:01:01 helen crond[27833]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly) Mar 16 14:01:01 helen crond[27834]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly) ------------------------- On the other it just runs once, as expected.

The docs to installing cfengine refers to /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root That doesn't exist. Nor does /etc/crontab. Heck I remember that from the "old days", now there are lots of cron entries, in /etc but no crontab. Not installed by default. So, I'm hunting that one down. Nate, what did you wind up doing?? Ric -- ---------------------------------------------------- My father,

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 >

Hi all, This is crazy but I can't see the answer.? In my system crontab I've added a job to stop the music system at 10:59 on the 11th November, and restart it at 11:02 on the 11th November # m??? h??? dom??? mon? dow??? user??? command ? 59? 10???? *???? 11??? *???? root???? /bin/squeezy -all -off >>/var/log/newplaylist 2>&1 ? 02? 11???? *???? 11??? *???? root????

> > For the record: > # service anacron status > Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status anacron.service > Unit anacron.service could not be found. > You have mail in /var/spool/mail/root It's not a service. As I said, it's run using a script in /etc/cron.hourly > > Sure, anacron is not installed. So how could stuff in /etc/cron.{daily,weekly} > work until June

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

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 folks, While investigating OpenBSD's cron implementation, I found that they set the systemwide crontab (a.k.a. /etc/crontab) to be readable by the superuser only. The attached patch will bring this to FreeBSD by moving crontab out from BIN1 group and install it along with master.passwd. This change should not affect the current cron(1) behavior. Cheers, -- Xin LI <delphij frontfree

Hi; I have the following in crontab -eu root: @daily /usr/local/bin/mysql-backup- daily.sh @weekly /usr/local/bin/mysql-backup-weekly.sh @monthly /usr/local/bin/mysql-backup-monthly.sh [root at 13gems globalsolutionsgroup.vi]# ls /usr/local/bin/mysql-* /usr/local/bin/mysql-daily.sh /usr/local/bin/mysql-monthly.sh /usr/local/bin/mysql-weekly.sh These scripts worked on another server. The daily