similar to: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 7426] New: --files-from= broken when run from crontab

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7425 Summary: --files-from= broken when run from crontab Product: rsync Version: 3.0.7 Platform: x64 OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: blocker Priority: P3 Component: core AssignedTo: wayned at samba.org ReportedBy: bgcladd at gmail.com

Hello everyone, running rsync version 3.0.7 if i call a shell script with the content: *rsync -a -e 'ssh -i /home/mapsync/.ssh/id_rsa' --bwlimit=1221 --files-from=/tmp/tf2maplist --no-relative / mapsync at foo.com: /home/mapsync/tf2maps* Everything runs great from a shell and /tmp/tf2maplist is a file which contains one line at a time the location of all the .bsp files found in /home,

Hello folks, I've a problem. I just installed Jaunty, and, thanks to Wine, the latest version of Steam. But, after the installation, it doesn't open. It just stays in processes as "Steam.exe" @ sleeping. Any solutions? (I tried running it on both XP and Vista mode)

Package: logcheck-database Version: 1.2.54 Severity: normal Hello, it seems crontab reports it's whole path in syslog : May 6 16:00:03 eckmul /usr/bin/crontab[9722]: (root) LIST (nobody) I don't have other messages from it in my logs, so I can't comment on the other lines in /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/cron , but I had to modify the LIST one with /usr/bin/crontab Thanks, --

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

Hi, Can anoyone tell me why this command is not executed (or it is without success) from crontab, but works perfectly from the command line ? (yes, i've restarted crontab service) # clean up postmaster 00 30 * * * root /usr/bin/find /var/qmail/maildirs/postmaster at telbit.pt/Maildir/new -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -n 50 rm The mind boggles... Any help would be appreciated. Warm

So I want to see if there is a way to restrict crontab from running an executable or anything else from a world-writable directory, or subdirectory thereof. Thanks. Scott

Hi, I also met an error in crontabs: Could not prefetch "NilClass"rovider crontab: undefined method `each'' for nil:NilClass this is on freeBSD. 0.22.4 was working fine on the very same host. Any idea ? The crontab binary is there but it seems puppet does not find the right provider in this version ? -- Cordialement, Ghislain

----- KSR[T] Website : http://www.dec.net/ksrt E-mail: ksrt@dec.net ----- KSR[T] Advisory #005 Date: Dec 6, 1997 ID #: lin-dcrn-005 Operating System(s): Slackware 3.4 Affected Program: dillon crontab / crond ( dcron

Does anyone have any idea how to fix the vixie crontab root exploit under Redhat 4.2? It seems to still exist. I have tried several methods to fix this but I haven''t been able to succeed. -ds ********************************************* Dark Shadow Director of Internet Services Netherworld Online Systems telnet://netherworld.net / Data: 703-383-3280 33.6 / FAX: 703-503-5945

/* vixie crontab buffer overflow for RedHat Linux * * I dont think too many people know that redhat uses vixie crontab. * I didn''t find this, just exploited it. * * * Dave G. * <daveg@escape.com> * http://www.escape.com/~daveg * * */ #include <stdio.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <unistd.h> #define

[Mod: Sent to linux-security instead of linux alert -- alex] Dave G. <daveg@ESCAPE.COM> wrote: > /* vixie crontab buffer overflow for RedHat Linux > * > * I dont think too many people know that redhat uses vixie crontab. > * I didn''t find this, just exploited it. The vulnerability involves an unguarded sscanf call in env.c. Enlarging the buffer to the largest

Assembled Wisdom, I was trying to help this poor guy on the intertubes who is having some bizarre issues with running smbget (version 3.4.7) from a cron script? Is there are some weird environment variables or something I am missing that is off-limits to the sh in cron that prevents this from working? http://serverfault.com/questions/278586/crontab-permission-denied/278595#278595 Best, _AJS --

Has anybody created a crontab script to check the health of an Asterisk server? The part I'm struggling with is some sort of IAX "ping" to test the connection to each provider without making a call. -HJC

Hi , I am trying to download one folder from a windows share regularly. I used the following command from the *command line* its *working* fine. */usr/bin/smbget -R smb://192.168.10.32/Data --username USER --password PASSWORD* But same script that I used in crontab(user per cron) I am getting some errors and that is attached. The interesting thing is if I issue */usr/bin/smbget

I have a crontab for Nobody. I tried to delete it in a root kcron, which I'm sure is how I dealt with this in the past, but it seems impossible to delete. Should I delete the file /var/spool/cron/nobody? It is owned root:root, perms 600. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase -------------- next part --------------

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, I have a issue with OpenSSH 3.7.1p2 and crontab (solaris 8). The crontab will not execute correctly the commands if I edit it by using OpenSSH. client (Solaris 8 / Openssh 3.7.1p2) ---> server (Solaris 8 / Openssh 3.7.1p2). Next, I edit the crontab with "vi" using a console session and I save it without doing modification. The crontab works perfectly now ! ? I have

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

Did you restart the crontab service after the change ? If not, crontab wont be aware of the changes. Nassri > rado wrote: > > for some reason, crontab is not picking up a job here > listed. I, for > > one see nothing wrong w/it as I have been running approx the same > > basic crontab for well over a year now. I have just put this box on > > line about a week