similar to: stupidly simple crontab problem

Hi, I have downloaded around 60GB package repositories of bioconductor to use it locally and to set up mirror at my university site. I have installed the mirror with rsync command and able to access also. Now I have to set a cron job for its daily updating from bioconductor website. How should I do it? I know rsync have to be used but I don't know the proper syntax. I request to send

Could not figure out where I am going wrong. Following is my code in crontab -e:- MAILTO: users MAILTO= users # m h dom mon dow command 3 19 * * * $HOME/users/REPORT/MAIL; time R --slave < report.R [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

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 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

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

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

Hello folks.. I suddenly found the crontab on one of my puppet clients overwritten. It had many entries, including one created by Puppet. Suddenly during one run it was overwritten, keeping only the Puppet entry and removing everything else. Nothing changed between the previous runs and the one that re-created the crontab in terms of configuration. I''m running Puppet 2.7.6. Fri Jul

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

Hey list, I have several crontabs set up to run at night and I'm not convinced they are running but of course, I'm not here to see for sure! The crontabs are like the following example; 30 20 * * * sh /home/a_user/nightlyscrips/nightly_script_1 > /home/a_user/nightlyscripts/`date +%d-%m-%Y--%H-%M-%S`.log However, if this would have successfully ran last night I would surely expect to

Hi all, I am running Ubuntu server 10.04 and use rsync to do all my backups. I would like to backup multiple directories to my external hard drive, but I am faced with a problem on how to set up crontab -e to allow each rsync statement to perform one after the other. Right now I have each one set to run on different nights, but I would like them all to run the same night to allow for a more

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

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:

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

Is there any way to create a parent directory for a file if it doesn''t exist? Trying this: file { "/etc/crontabs/$title.crontab": source => "puppet:///crontabs/$title.crontab", ensure => present, owner => $user, recurse => true } but it''s failing because /etc/crontabs doesn''t exist. Thanks :) Tim

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, 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

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 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