similar to: Change smbpasswd in a cron job

Hi list For a project we are trying to change the samba password automatically in a cron job. Since smbpasswd doesn't allow the password to be entered otherwise than though the console (user input). We found a solution to the input part though expect. But as thing go expect doesn't work in a cron job since it has no tty. Is there anyone who can point us the right way to a solution.

hi, I want to use two backends f?r DoveCot. One generated file from the LDAP tree, and the real LDAP. The first backend is generated from a cronjob thats reads the whole ldap server and converts them into a DoveCot passwd file. I red in the Wiki, if the user password isn't correct, than DoveCot asks the second backend (LDAP). Is this correct? Because, the the user can change his password,

Hi, I'm trying to run a DOS program within a cron job. After much trial-and-error I settled on the following approach: - rm -r ~/.wine - call wine without any arguments, this lets wine generate a default configuration in ~/.wine - change ~/.wine/config: set GraphicsDriver to ttydrv instead of x11drv - the cron job consists of a shell script that runs the DOS program with "wcmd

Hi list I have trouble setting up the system permissions to be secure. Here my basic setup. 2 groups: users and staff /home/user should have the permissions user:users rwx------ /mnt/staff should have the permissions user:staff rwxrwx--- For the last one users should'nt have access. I test with fx.: user=staffuser, primarygroup: users, member of group: staff If i setup the permissions to

hello list, I am attempting to backup a centos 5.4 (x86_64) server running mysql with a cron job. Here's how the cron job looks: [root at cloud:/home/bluethundr/backupdb] #crontab -l * 3 * * * /usr/bin/mysqldump jfwiki > /home/bluethundr/backupdb/wiki-$(date +%Y%m%d).sql However if I run the command from the command line it seems to work fine. If I grep syslog for cron this is what

Hey, > check-update sounds better than putting yum update in a cron job. Only a mad man would do that! Are the cAos and CentOS releases THAT BAD? > Much better to run a daily cron which rsyncs your local patch repository. So must one have your own local repository to avoid being labeled as a madman? In which one of the RedHad reference books can I find this? Just curious. Rick

On Fedora Core Linux 4, I have a cron job that causes R to update all packages and install new ones. Lately, I notice in the log that some packages fail to install. These are ones that assume X is running. For example, the pbatR install requires tcltk to be loaded, and then the install fails because in a cron job, there is no DISPLAY environment. I suppose the same happens if you try to

On Fedora Core Linux 4, I have a cron job that causes R to update all packages and install new ones. Lately, I notice in the log that some packages fail to install. These are ones that assume X is running. For example, the pbatR install requires tcltk to be loaded, and then the install fails because in a cron job, there is no DISPLAY environment. I suppose the same happens if you try to

Hi Is there a way for puppet to create cron job on each of my node based on my gateway''s IP ? bala@bala-desktop:~$ route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 10.0.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 1 0 0 eth0 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 1000 0 0 eth0 0.0.0.0

Here's a perl script that works when I run it manually. But when I run it via cron, it won't create the directory. But worse than that, an email isn't sent to the account running the job. So I'm not getting an error, but it does work when I run it manually. If I put an obvious error in the script, cron does generate an email giving me the STDERR. What could it be? === Al

Hello, In trying to resolve a problem with a cron job, we can see when the job starts by looking in the /var/log/cron log file. However, I was asked if when the job ends could also be logged. (It seems to be something that crops up every so often over the years.) I found on the 'net this article https://serverfault.com/questions/248915/crontab-is-there-any-log-with-begin-and-end-time which

Hi All, How does one create a cron job that runs commands like: /usr/local/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=xxx.com -update /usr/local/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=yyy.com -update Say every 15 mins? -Jason

I'd like to use an R CMD BATCH script as part of a chron job that is set up to run every hour. The trouble is that the script creates a graphical output in a file via png(), and apparently this in turn works through X. When cron invokes the job, no X server is available -- I suppose that the DISPLAY variable is not set -- and so R exits with an error message in the output file. (If I run the

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

Hi ! I would like to know if it's possible for Rsync to automatically mirror a folder and it's content from one deamon to another. (or one client to a deamon) Basically I want users to drag and drop files in a folder and Rsync to mirror these files as soon as it sees them. A cron or schedule task is not a viable solution since we can receive files any time of night or day and we need to

Hello, i have a certain issue at hand that i'm trying to solve. there's a certain command that i need to execute 10 minutes after boot. how can i set that? im not very expert with cron jobs but can it be done that way? i know that cronjob works on specified time but how can i set it to run with '10 min after startup" as a condition ?

we have CENTOS 5.5 on DELL server.? One of our script need run on first Saturday every month. ?We have following setup on cron job but it run every Saturday.? 15 04 1-7 * 6 /home/app/oracle/backup/monthlybk.sh ? Any one know how to fix it? Thanks.

Hi, I have a Linux based NAS, which unfortunately appears to be a bit underpowered, heres why I say that: 5 PC's backup to the NAS on a weekly full with hourly incrementals 7 days a week between 7am and 6pm (2 week retention policy). There is no problem with that. Where there is a problem is getting that data off the NAS to the USB attached storage for off site (2 disks swapped weekly). The

Package: logcheck-database Version: 1.2.23 Followup-For: Bug #254681 Please generalize "nobody" to "[_[:alnum:]-]+", as some cron jobs su to other users: Jul 11 06:51:16 tux su[10385]: + ??? root:hinfo Jul 11 06:57:25 tux su[29801]: + ??? root:www-data Thanks. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500,

Does any one regularly reboot GS101? It sometimes lost registration with * and needs to be reboot. What is the best way to do it by cron? David Kwok