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I received some interesting answers to my cron question. Most people said it was not possible. One person reviewed cron's source code and said the source would need to be modified. One person said I should mount the filesystem with noexec. I'll review and test the answers as best I can. To answer several people's curiosities of why I keep pushing - when I'm tasked with a

Is it possible to prevent cron from executing something in a world-readable directory, or a directory branching off a world-readable directory? Thanks. Scott

Dear All Please be informed that I have an CentOS 5 server and I need it to be automatically rebooted at pre-specified times . To this end , I tried to set it as its crontab job as the followings : #crontab -e 30 15 * * * reboot It got through but after the server first reboot the crontab job disappeared . So I tried to set it in another way , as the followings : set the cron list in /tmp/temp add

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

Hi!I'm working with 2 linux, with 2 IP;I want make a copy of some files inside one directory to the other linux.I called a file scriptx.sh in the first linux and this is the body: #!/bin/bash rsync -avvz --delete --rsh=ssh --stats /home/copia/ root@192.168.xxx.xx:/home/vrrp/dir/copia/ (xxx.xx are numbers...rights..only for security I crypted them) ok, then I create the crontab file with

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

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, I have to setup a scheduled task on a server, and I just read through some crontab docs. Now I'm confused. It's not so much the syntax of the cron job to define (I got that), it's more... how do I get to define it? Use a text editor (vi or the likes) to edit /etc/crontab directly? Or create some empty file in /etc/cron.daily or /etc/cron.hourly or the likes and then edit it

Dear Expert, Is there any settings in rsync to run the command automatically in crontab? i've setup the crontab and create the ssh key to ignore the password prompt, but it seems like the rsync didn't works well. the crontab setting is like this: * */2 * * * /usr/bin/rsync -avzporg --stats root@10.1.1.1:/home/email/ /home/data-email/ if i run this manually, it works, im using redhat 8.0

Hello , I need to create a crontab job , to reboot my server at 23:00 every day "is a test". I use this process Crontab -e Add , the following line . 00 23 * * * reboot :wq , bot this process not work , who about that ? JOSE PEREZ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

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 there fellow hackers, geeks and others who want the UNIX desktop to succeed. I bring forward the question whether or not a (freedesktop.org) specification is necessary for application scheduling software. The current UNIX Desktop user does not have an easy way to configure the tasks which he wants to schedule. Sure we have such a utility. And sure we can shout to our Desktop users

NB> Hello, I'm trying to put a crontab on Ices, but it seems I can't do NB> it, here is the script I tried to use : NB> #!/bin/sh NB> process=`ps axuw | grep ices | grep -v grep` NB> if [ -z "$process"] NB> then NB> cd /home/Darkmeteor/bin NB> nohup /home/Darkmeteor/bin/ices /home/Darkmeteor/bin/ices-playlist.xml > /dev/null 2> start & NB>

I am using rsync and crontab to perform scheduled backups on FreeBSD AMD64 Rel. 7.0 I am following process described here for rsync : http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/examples.html I have a backup script's created for daily, weekly, monthly. This is one example - the daily (/backup is a seperate physical drive) : #daily backup script rsync -a --delete /usr/home/data/Access/

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

Hi, I seem to have a problem with crontab. I am running CentOS 5.5. If I add my bakup scripts into crontab they take very long to run. If I run my scripts manually they run 100%. I have also tried vixiecron, same issue. Any ideas? Thanks Jenny -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

hi, How can I open crontab with gedit any any other editor ? i want to edit my cron jobs with other editors beside vi.

Did you mean non-secular? Otherwise what sect is it? -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org <centos-bounces at centos.org> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> Sent: Fri Nov 30 14:22:04 2007 Subject: Re: Release Cycles [was RE: [CentOS] special tricks for developersboxon centos 5] On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 09:39:01AM -0800, Robert - elists alleged:

Every day I see this in chkrootkit's log - Checking `crontab'... Warning: crontab for nobody found, possible Lupper.Worm... not infected I know I met this once before, but I can't remember whether there is any cure for it. It doesn't seem possible to remove nobody in kcron, and there are no tasks set. What could/should I do about it? Anne -------------- next part

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