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66 questions linked to/from Why crontab scripts are not working?
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Bash script not executing from crontab [duplicate]
I have the following bash script:
#!/bin/bash
mysqldump -u ******** -p******** --all-databases | gzip > /home/srvlinux01/MySQLBackups/database_$(date +\%Y-\%m-\%d).sql.gz
which is located in /...
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Crontab and Shell Script not Executing [duplicate]
Anybody any suggestions on why my crontab and shell script is not running.
I have
chmod +x my shell script and added the following into crontab -e
*/5 * * * * bash cd /home/jclark/scrips/ipcheck/ &...
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Crontab not running script [duplicate]
EDITED:
I got a script running with a cronjob every day at 1 am:
0 1 * * * /bin/bash /home/performanceRatio.sh
It also appears in the cron.log:
Feb 2 01:00:01 inf-education-67 CRON[108963]: (root) ...
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Why a working script does not execute as a cron job? [duplicate]
I wrote a script to backup a database. When I execute it directly, it works. I tried to make it a cron job and while it runs (I checked with service status cron) it seems that it silently fails.
Here ...
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Crontab not running [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Reasons why crontab does not work
I have setup a crontab to run a shell script every minute. Here's my crontab file:
* * * * * sh /var/www/stuff/public_html/recycle.sh
This ...
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Trouble with bash and crontab [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Reasons why crontab does not work
I'm migrating some scripts from an older machine to a lucid ec2 machine.
I'm sourcing a file in our ~/.bashrc and setting some environment ...
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Setup a cronjob for PHP script in ubuntu & PHP [duplicate]
I want to setup a cronjob for PHP script in ubuntu
I have a script just I want to know how to set it.
* 3 * * * /var/www/html/booking_cron.php
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Command works on terminal but doesn't work in cron [duplicate]
I have the following command that I can run from any folder and it will start my (Angularjs) webapp by using the grunt task runner tool -
cd /root/dev/myapp && grunt serve
However when I put ...
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Crontab says command not found [duplicate]
I just setup a cron to restart 'Thin' application server for my Ruby application every hour. I have tried every method but the cron is giving error saying command not found.
My script looks something ...
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Only part of crontab working [duplicate]
i have a line in crontab:
* * * * * date >> /home/pana/temperatures.txt; hddtemp /dev/sda >> /home/pana/temperatures.txt ;hddtemp /dev/sdb >> /home/pana/temperatures.txt ;sensors &...
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Cron task does not get executed [duplicate]
I have a list of commands to run every day. When I copy paste it directly to terminal and run it is working but when I copy paste the same command to cron its not working.
This is the command
0 10 * * ...
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Cron says it runs commands but doesn't [duplicate]
I have a very weird problem. I have a crontab which looks like this (this is the output of crontab -l:
* * * * * touch /home/<user>/Desktop/crontest.txt
A sample output of sudo grep CRON /var/...
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rndc flushname works from command line, but not from bash script [duplicate]
I am banging my head against the wall here trying to figure this out. I have an automated DNS propagation system I am trying to build internally, and everything works except rndc flushname. If I do ...
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"(CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output)" error in the syslog
I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS an a number of servers.
I have not added any cron jobs or edited my crontab on those servers, however, at around the same time for each machine, I get a ...
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Script doesn't run via crontab but works fine standalone
I have a script that reminds me to restart my computer if uptime is more than, say 3 days (although its set to 0 days now just to check if the script is running as my computer has been up only over a ...
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