Questions tagged [cron.daily]
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Robustly disabling specific cron.{hourly,daily,weekly} script
On various systems that I administer, there are cron scripts that get run via the commonly-used /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly} layout. What I want to know is whether there's any common 'disable this script' functionality.
Obviously, simply…
benizi
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APT FATAL -> Failed to fork
I saw a lot of questions regarding this, but mine seems a little different.
Here's what I receive:
/etc/cron.weekly/apt-xapian-index:
FATAL -> Failed to fork.
run-parts: /etc/cron.weekly/apt-xapian-index exited with return code…
MultiformeIngegno
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How to launch crontab commands inside of certain screen sessions?
I have a crontab that runs like this:
0 0 * * * /execute/shell/script.sh
0 0 * * * /execute/shell/script1.sh
0 0 * * * /execute/shell/script2.sh
And, I want to launch each script in a different screen. But I want to keep that screen running so…
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How to recreate /etc/cron.daily/apt?
On my Debian 6.0.8 system the /etc/cron.daily/apt file is missing. Therefore, unattended upgrades do not work.
How can I recreate/fix /etc/cron.daily/apt?
robert
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How can I create cron jobs in specific files on Linux Centos
I want to have a separate folders for cron jobs like:
/mydata/cronjobs
Now in that folder I want to have files like backup_server which will have the content like:
30 3 * * 1-5 /home/user/scripts/backup.sh
30 3 * * 1-5 /home/user/scripts/backup2.sh…
MOtaro Site
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logrotate cron job not rotating certain logs
I added two scripts in "logrotate.d" directory for my application logs to be rotated.
This is the config for one of them:
{
compress
copytruncate
delaycompress
dateext
missingok
notifempty
daily
rotate 30
}
There is…
user2206396
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Cron daily running twice
On my CentOS 7 server, errors generated by a nightly backup script that should have run fine caused me to check on my cron activity. I discovered that cron.daily is running twice - here is the relevant section of /var/log/cron after I removed my…
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/etc/cron.daily/locate has blank line. File is readonly can't edit
I get this output every day.
/etc/cron.daily/locate:
run-parts: failed to exec /etc/cron.daily/locate: Exec format error
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/locate exited with return code 1
File contents with a blank beginning line:
#!/bin/sh
exit 0
This…
user3359116
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How to add cronjobs to /etc/cron.daily/
We have to use crontab -e to add a cronjob to crontab.
And crontab -r to remove cronjobs.
Here, no Copy & Paste not allowed.
I need to add a script to cron.daily, how to add?
Md Mahbubur Rahman
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CentOS 6.2 cron.daily
I created a new file "dbbackup" in /etc/cron.daily that contains a simple database backup script.
#!/bin/sh
mysqldump -h localhost -u user -p'passord' database_name > /var/www/sites/example.com/backups/db_backup_"`eval date +%u%m%Y`".sql
Now the…
Alex
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How can I make an environment variable visible to a script placed in /etc/cron.daily?
Say I have a script named "mydailyscript" containing the following:
#!/bin/bash
if [ ! -z $MYDAILYLOG]; then
exec 1>$MYDAILYLOG
fi
echo This script ran on $(date)
and I then copy this script to /etc/cron.daily.
Where do I define the environment…
AWM
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Logwatch sends me 2 copies of yesterday's server activity, why?
I use Logwatch to track what is going on on one of my Fedora 11 boxes. Since updating it from an older Fedora release I now get 2 copies of the same information to my inbox. I cannot find where this might be getting duplicated. I was assuming it…
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Cronjob not working properly on debian
I'm trying to run a PHP script everyday at midnight, so my cron has the following entry
@daily /usr/bin/php /websites/xxz/misc/wU5HaFre.php
/websites/xxz/misc/wU5HaFre.php has 755 rights, so it's executable.
which php provides /usr/bin/php, whereis…
user145429
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When will ANACRONTAB run cron.daily?
My RHEL has the following anacrontab config file, it has START_HOURS_RANGE and RANDOM_DELAY both missing, what hour does cron.daily start everyday? My guess is it is random. Is it true?
# /etc/anacrontab: configuration file for anacron
# See…
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preventing tmpwatch from clobbering archives that were "just" unpacked into /tmp
I have an application that unpacks an archive into /tmp, restoring the extracted files' modification and access times. Sometimes these files and the enclosing archive are many years old. After the files are extracted (sometimes many minutes or…
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