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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 --

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

smbget -Rr smb://localhost/share [all files and folders are copied successfully!] echo $? 1 On the other hand, when smbget is introduced with an error smbget -Rr smb://localhost/shar Can't open directory smb://localhost/shar: No such file or directory echo $? 0 This is breaking my error checking in backup scripts. I can't find any place to file a bug report, I hope this is the right

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 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 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

[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

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, --

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,

Hiya all, just found an odd one on one of our boxes, cron isnt working (for a user anyway, but can't seem to get it running properly at all), i.e if I do a crontab -e as a user (who is in /var/spool/cron) and add 19 10 * * * /bin/touch /home/logadmin/testfile (has permission) its never created. Also I get no mails from cron to /var/spool/mail/root so guessing maybe cron not working at all,

Hi All. I currently have a problem with proper invocation of a python script with cron. non-root $ crontab -l #Ansible: script_repo_scanner 55 11 * * * /usr/bin/python /path/script_repo_scanner.py --bb_user bb_user --bb_pass bb_pass --bd_log_dir /path/logs &> /path/script_repo_scanner.py.log And in /var/log/cron I see that cron executed the script but there is no log output in

Hi, I have a strange problem here. I have two servers, one dedicated webserver, and a local backup server. On the webserver I have this : [root at 12569hpv163154:~] # crontab -l 00 22 * * * /usr/local/bin/sauvegarde-pmbccps.sh This launches a backup script every day at 22:00, and it works as expected. Now here's what I have on the local backup server : [root at grossebertha:~] # crontab

Is one meant to have one or the other? If so, which is recommended? I have -------------------------------- [tim at helen etc]$ cat anacrontab # /etc/anacrontab: configuration file for anacron # See anacron(8) and anacrontab(5) for details. SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root 1 65 cron.daily run-parts /etc/cron.daily 7 70 cron.weekly

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7426 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

L.S. I hope someone can enlighten me on the following phenomenon. When I run rsync (3.0.2 or 3.0.4) from a (SH) script as follows: rsync -vrpth --stats --progress --log-file=/nslu2/rsync.log --log-file-format="%t %i %n%L" --include-from=/nslu2/rsync-files /share/hdd/data/public/Ernst/ 192.168.1.69::rsync-nslu2 All is well; it works fine. Log file is created, both client (NSLU2 from

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

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

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 --------------

Just looking at the "man rsync". Might as well be duagnosing a plattypus. I have made a dir on my Cent samba shares to setup a local fedora.repo (1) How do I get it to run weekly at a certain time. is this correct? crontab -e 22 7 0 0 /usr/bin/rsync -va /Fedora-Mirror /local samba share. (2) Trying to get cron it run 10pm every saturday night. Log whats happening. update packages,

Hi all, I've been running rsync via cron for a while now and all is well. However on one particular new 5.5 box, whenever its runs via crontab, the machine ends up with over 20 rsync processes and a load of ~14 and eventually the machine dies. But when running manually, I see it spawn 3 processes with a load of 1.5. My rsync command is simply; rsync --delete -avvH --progress source