I call a Python script from crontab. The script does generates colored output using ANSI escapes but when crontab is sending the mail with the output I see the escapes instead of colors. What is happening is logic but I would like to know if it would be possible to generate a html message instead. I would like a solution that does no...
Which is the best way to run a process in scheduler. I can either do it crontab or Spring-Batch. Any other better option? ...
Can .php be used in Crontab function on Linux or wil it execute only .CGI scripts? I'm using Plesk Control panel, I did the settings as per the Crontab doc, but i think it's not executing the php files. Does any one have the Idea about what more to do with ...
I want my custom made Django command to be executed every minute. However it seems like python /path/to/project/myapp/manage.py mycommand doesn't seem to work while at the directory python manage.py mycommand works perfectly. How can I achieve this ? I use /etc/crontab with: ****** root python /path/to/project/myapp/manage.py mycommand...
How do people deploy/version control cronjobs to production? I'm more curious about conventions/standards people use than any particular solution, but I happen to be using git for revision control, and the cronjob is running a python/django script. ...
I would like to include cron tasks in my Capistrano deployment files instead of using the following command to manually edit the crontab file: crontab -e [username] Is there a script I could use within the Capistrano run command to set the contents of the crontab? ...
Hi, I'm trying to write a web frontend for Crontab in Ruby using the excellent CronEdit gem. I went through Dillon Cron's crontab source code and found that it updates a particular file so that the daemon will refresh the cron list during the next sweep. In man crontab for VixieCron, it says: Additionally, cron checks each minute to ...
I'm trying to get familiar with cron jobs, and I think I get the basic idea (scheduling, syntax, etc), But, I can't seem to get it right on my mac with Terminal - where exactly do I find the Crontab? How should I reference the paths to scripts? What I'm trying to do is hit a php script on a remote machine (http://...) - Is that possible...
Are there any tools or reports out there that given a crontab file can output which jobs run within a specified time-frame. Our crontab file has become very large and our system administrators struggle to find out which jobs need to be rerun when we have scheduled downtime on the server. We're trying to figure out which jobs we need to ...
Here's a snippet of a bash script I'm writing to log CPU loads: #!/bin/bash # ... irrelevant nonsense ... cmd1="/usr/bin/mpstat -P ALL | egrep '(AM|PM)([[:space:]]+)(0)' | tr -s ' ' | cut -d' ' -f4" ldsys="$(echo $cmd1 | /bin/sh)" # ... irrelevant nonsense ... $ldsys is set properly when the script is executed conventionally from the ...
we need run one function periodically in Java web application . How to call function of some class periodically ? Is there any way that call function when some event occured like high load in server and so on . what is crontab ? Is that work periodically ? ...
Hi, I'm trying to run a test script using crontab within Plesk. The php file simply emails me a message mail('[email protected]','Cron Test','Test'); My path to php is /user/bin/php I have entered * in every field, to run the script every minute with the following command: /usr/bin/php -q /usr/httpdocs/crontest.php However, the sc...
I am executing a script manually on my UNIX system manually, it runs successfully and updated required records in ORACLE database. How ever when I exwcute the same script with crontab my process exits with the error code 127. On analysing further, I got there is some problem in these statements. LOGFILE=sachin ORALOGIN=abc/abc@abcd ...
I want to have a web interface to control when to call a PHP script. In this interface I want to be able to set certain times or ranges that a script will be called. This information will be stored in a DB. When I hit save I want to have it read all the scheduled times from the DB, then format it and write it to a crontab for a cron job....
Hi, I'm trying to run a cron job so that a php script will run every 10 minutes on my server. The script updates a database. Right now my crontab looks like: * /10 * * * * /usr/bin/php /home/user/public_html/domain.com/private/update.php However, the php script never seems to run. I've also tried reloading cron after updating the cr...
Hey I want to create cronjobs that runs every 10 min < time now and mail me a email with the follow txt. "deleted orders" my code looks like this. MAILTO=”[email protected]” */10 * * * * /var/www/php-sites/dlf/cron_jobs.php I have checked my mails the last 30 min.. and still havent receive any mails. am i doing it wrong ? ...
Hi, I'm using Aptana Cloud without root access. WORKS: * * * * * /usr/sfw/bin/wget -qO- 'http://myproject.aptanacloud.com/myproject/myphp.php' | /bin/mail [email protected] DOESN'T WORK!: * * * * * /usr/sfw/bin/wget -qO- 'http://myproject.aptanacloud.com/myproject/myphp.php?param1=blog%2frss2.xml' | /bin/mail [email protected] I...
I'm coding in PHP and threads are a bit out of my league. I'd like to run the same script in parallel. Say my script runs for 2 minutes, and I run it every minute during a cronjob. What happens? Does the first one fall over when the second one runs, or do they just both hum along? ...
I'm trying to set up an automated svn commit to run semi-hourly under mac os 10.6, but the crontabs i'm adding to cron don't seem to be valid and/or don't seem to even be looked at by cron. For testing i made a simple crontab and script: Crontab: */2 * * * * /Users/username/crontest where username is replaced with my system username...
I'm trying to execute a shell script from cron on Freebsd. To test wether crontab is working at all, i wrote the line * * * * * echo "Hello" > /home/myuser/logile and it work fine. But when trying to execute any script it doesn't do anything, not even an error. (In the script i tried to run is just the same echo command) Below is the...