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 Post subject: crontab problems
PostPosted: Wed Apr 18, 2018 5:49 pm 
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I logged in as root
crontab -e

i added the following (run myscript.sh at 2.10AM every morning)

10 02 00 * * /usr/bin/myscript.sh >/dev/null 2>&1

I know that i can run myscript.sh and it would run fine.

Unfortunately i am not sure if this is actually executing under cron?

Any sugestions?


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 Post subject: Re: crontab problems
PostPosted: Wed Apr 18, 2018 6:39 pm 
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Caymann

I just have a moment to post but I think you are calling it to run on the 0 day of the month so it will never run:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron

edit: further to my original post, your crontab entry appears to be as follows:
10 02 00 * * /usr/bin/myscript.sh >/dev/null 2>&1

Broken down:
Minute: 10
Hour: 02 (2 am)
Day of Month: 00 (none)
Month: * (all)
Day of week: * (all)
Command: /usr/bin/myscript.sh >/dev/null 2>&1

What you need to run it at 2:10 am each day, is:
10 2 * * * /usr/bin/myscript.sh >/dev/null 2>&1

You could consider writing to a file in your script if you need to be able to check if it ran, because I am unaware of any logs by cron.


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 Post subject: Re: crontab problems
PostPosted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 6:00 am 
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Ahh, that would explain it. I will fix that and see what happens.

Upon reading the forum, i learned that LinHES uses dcron instead of cron.
Is that true?

I see directories like /etc/cron.daily , /etc/cron.weekly ...
Each of these directories has several bash scripts running
For now i put my script in the /etc/cron.weekly directory
Not sure which day of the week this runs and at what time?

Will that work?


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 Post subject: Re: crontab problems
PostPosted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 10:57 am 
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I wouldn't touch the /etc/cron.* directories personally, but that's just because they are used for system tasks and I didn't want to impact anything. I don't know how to determine when the weekly stuff will run. I kind of suspect it will look at the last time they ran and if it has been a week or longer, it will run again in order to work more gracefully with system shutdowns (the computer may be powered off when it is scheduled to run). Don't take me at my word on this because I am merely speculating.

If your computer is going to be on at 2:10 am every day, I would set it up as you were going to initially with the updated settings I provided. I would also move that script into the home directory because if you update to a new version of LinHES, it could get wiped out in the /usr/bin/ directory.


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 Post subject: Re: crontab problems
PostPosted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 1:16 pm 
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Ok great, i will move this into crontab


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 Post subject: Re: crontab problems
PostPosted: Fri Apr 20, 2018 5:09 am 
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Sorry, but crontab is not doing it.

I logged in as root.
I tried to run this at 6.45AM for as quick test

[root@mythtv ~]# crontab -e

This is what the contents of crontab looks like:-

# root crontab
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE MANUALLY! USE crontab -e INSTEAD

# man 1 crontab for acceptable formats:
# <minute> <hour> <day> <month> <dow> <tags and command>
# <@freq> <tags and command>

# SYSTEM DAILY/WEEKLY/... FOLDERS
@hourly ID=sys-hourly /usr/bin/run-cron /etc/cron.hourly
@daily ID=sys-daily /usr/bin/run-cron /etc/cron.daily
@weekly ID=sys-weekly /usr/bin/run-cron /etc/cron.weekly
@monthly ID=sys-monthly /usr/bin/run-cron /etc/cron.monthly
0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * /usr/bin/run-cron /etc/cron.tenminutes
45 06 * * * /usr/bin/mycode.sh >/dev/null 2>&1


I have no idea how to check if crontab actually ran.
When i look at the output of the mycode.sh, it shows nothing
When i ram mycode.sh, i saw output.


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 Post subject: Re: crontab problems
PostPosted: Fri Apr 20, 2018 6:57 am 
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The /etc/cron.* will work great for this. Just drop your file in the directory you want for the frequency you want. knappster is correct they will run by looking at the last time they were executed and if it is greater than it will run. So if you need it to run at a specific time then you need to create your own cron job.

You are not getting output because you are redirecting std in/out to /dev/null. Redirect to a file to see the output.


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 Post subject: Re: crontab problems
PostPosted: Fri Apr 20, 2018 11:38 am 
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One last thing I wanted to point out was that by setting it up using
Code:
crontab -e
as root user, it will run the script as root. If you don't need root privileges, then it would be "safer" to set it up using crontab as the mythtv user. Just don't forget to give the proper file permissions to the user you are running as.

I am not certain which user the /etc/cron.* scripts run as.


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 Post subject: Re: crontab problems
PostPosted: Fri Apr 20, 2018 1:45 pm 
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knappster wrote:
I am not certain which user the /etc/cron.* scripts run as.
Root. Look at the root crontab and you can see how the cron.tenminutes and others are implemented.


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 Post subject: Re: crontab problems
PostPosted: Fri Apr 20, 2018 3:58 pm 
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brfransen wrote:
knappster wrote:
I am not certain which user the /etc/cron.* scripts run as.
Root. Look at the root crontab and you can see how the cron.tenminutes and others are implemented.


Oh right. caymann printed his root crontab output which demonstrated this. Duh.


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