Hi! I'm running the below script with cron, in /etc/cron.d/mycron I have the following: */10 * * * * MyUserThatNeedsToRunTheScript /backup/sshconnect.sh However, looking at ps -aux I find that a few [defunct] processes are lingering, any ideas? Does this have to with SSH being run with -f ? 5 0 1598 641 20 0 2552 1068 p...
I'm configuring a server in N.Virginia to have the same cron schedule as our 'old' server with America/Chicago timezone. I've edited /etc/timezone to have the value America/Chicago. I have the environment variable TZ=/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central . I've basically matched the old server, and both are on the NTP network. The cron schedul...
Hello all, Not having much luck Googling this question and I thought about posting it on SF, but it actually seems like a development question. If not, please feel free to migrate. So, I have a script that runs via cron every morning at about 3 am. I also run the same scripts manually sometimes. The problem is that every time I run my ...
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I've written a wrapper program for mailx using perl that allows me to easily add attachments and do some other nifty things that were a little frustrating to accomplish with mailx. In the first few lines I have: use strict; use warnings; use Getopt::Long; my ( $to, $from, $subject, $attachments, $body, $file ) = (undef) x 7; GetOptio...
I have a rails rake task which runs just fine. I want this task to be run periodically by crontab so I added it to crontab as follows : 0,30,0 * * * * cd /var/www/html/metajorn && RAILS_ENV=production /usr/local/bin/rake myraketask --trace >> /var/www/html/metajorn/log/cron_log.log 2>&1 In cron_log.log I'm seeing the following error...
Hi I need to schedule a cron job to run at at 9:00 AM on first Sunday of every month. Did a little research and see that there is no short hand in cron to this. Do you know of an optimal way ? Using Bash+RHL ...
I started to write a module for scheduling perl jobs with more readable syntax than a cron job, but wondered if there was already one available. I'm after something that can be run from a perl script, not a crontab file. This syntax has got to be easily readable. For example :- every Monday morning every other Tuesday at 3:30pm every ...
What is the best way to send e-mails or perform functions on a small, non-real money auction script? This script is a learning exercise for me and I was wondering what the best way would be to process actions when the auction has expired. A cron job every minute seems - to me - a method which can easily be surpassed. ...
I need this cron job to execute my shell just as it does when I run it on the command line. I read through the one other question I found about this, but my console-based cron job still is not working. I want to post some code and what it outputs, maybe someone can tell me what's going on. First off, this is on Cake 1.3. I am running o...
I am using xampp on windows vista. I want to run a php script once every x minutes. Is there anyway in xampp that can help facilitate this?, or is using the windows task scheduler the only way. ...
Hi, I am using Quartz .Net to schedule my jobs in my application. I was just wondering if a CRON expression for the following scenario can be built : Everysecond between 2:15AM and 5:20AM Could someone please throw some light on this? Thanks, Ram ...
I am trying to run a Django management command from cron. I am using virtualenv to keep my project sandboxed. I have seen examples here and elsewhere that show running management commands from within virtualenv's like: 0 3 * * * source /home/user/project/env/bin/activate && /home/user/project/manage.py command arg However, even thoug...
I need to make a simple if statement for a daily cron job to check if today is the first saturday of the month. How would I modify the following code to do that instead of just running on the 1st of every month? if (date("j") == 1) { // run cron here } ...
I am developing an online browser game, based on google maps, with Django backend, and I am getting close to the point where I need to make a decision on how to implement the (backend) timed events - i.e. NPC possession quantity raising (e.g. city population should grow based on some variables - city size, application speed). The possib...
I'm having some issues with a cron job to delete emails after 21 days. I've read through many examples and have tried many different variations of this command but I can't get it to work: find /home/cont/mail///cur -name "*" -mtime +21 -exec rm {} \; Currently this runs and I get a message back from every mail box that doesn't have any...
I have two shell scripts to write that will be executed nightly via cron schedule. On my production server: mysqldump -ufoo -pbar --opt --routines db > ~/sqldump/{$todays_date}.sql ln -s ~/sqldump/{$todays_date}.sql latest.sql On my development server: scp [email protected]:~/sqldump/latest.sql ~/sqldump mysql -ufoo -pbar db < latest...
This is probably going to be an underspecified question, as I'm not looking for a specific fix: I want to run a machine learning algorithm on some data in a MSSQL database. I'd like to use R to do the calculations -- which would involve using R to connect to the database, process the data, and write a table of results back to the datab...
hello! i have script which must execute after every n minutes. n minutes is dynamic so that i could not set a cron job to call the script (at a specific time). so what i did was i stored the time after every n minutes in an array so that when the script is executed, it will first check whether the current time is in the array. if it i...
Hi folks, This command: /usr/bin/mysqldump --add-drop-table -u myuser -pmypass mydb > "/home/myuser/dbBackups/"`date +%Y%m%d`".sql" works fine from the command line but whenb cron runs it I get /bin/sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``' /bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file The command i...