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16 questions linked to/from How to run a cron job using the sudo command
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How to automate bash scripts which includes sudo commands? [duplicate]
I added some commands to the bash script and those commands need root permission. So then I added sudo keyword to those commands. As the normal way, I added this script to the crontab file to automate ...
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Running script via crontab on reboot [duplicate]
I am using Ubuntu Server 16.04. Everytime I log in, I need to manually run my script: /home/user/ini.sh. This script calls other scripts that need sudo permissions, so I get the prompt, insert my ...
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Cron job as specific user not running [duplicate]
On my Ubuntu box I have a crontab setup for my normal user that has the following:
0 0 * * * sudo mysqldump -u root -h localhost --all-databases | gzip > /home/<user>/mysqlbackups/db_`date +%...
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Sudo options question [duplicate]
I need to run a command that requires sudo to run and I want to run it in crontab -e
the command is sudo java -jar WurmMapGen.jar but it asks for a password. I want this to be an automatic ...
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How do I set up a Cron job?
I want to schedule a task to run on a regular basis and have heard that Cron is the way to do this.
How do I add Cron jobs in Ubuntu?
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Running command at startup on crontab
I wanted to run a command on our linux after its done rebooting, I saw that it can be done using crontab. I wanted to run this command
sudo ifdown eth0 && sudo ifup -v eth0
on the crontab ...
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cronjob can't find script file
I have a script (buphomebasis.sh)that uses rsync to make backups from my home directory. Its content is:
sudo rsync -avz /home /media/myname/mybackupdsk
It works very well, just by invoking that ...
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How to avoid password request for sudo for crontab scripts?
I need that a new user could execute sudo without any request of password, because this user has in crontab a .sh that uses sudo for some commands.
I created a new user on my ubuntu server 16.04 x64
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run crontab as www-data to create a file with www-data as owner
I want to run a crontab command every 5 mins that executes a py script. The py script inturn generates a log file with midnight rotation within /var/www/logs/.The logs dir has 777 permission.
The log ...
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Upstart not running .sh script
The information on the web regarding upstart, init and .conf files is rubbish. A lot of different places show completely different ways of doing things.
Anyways, I have a script file /home/karl/....
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start openvpn client automatically at certain time?
I have an Ubuntu 14.04 Server with an OpenVPN Server running on it.
I would like to have an OpenVPN client from this machine connect to a remote machine in order to save backup files on the remote ...
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sudo ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd not working on cron job
I have used this command directly with the command line and it working fine.
sudo ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd
But when I set it to run each minute with cronjob nothing happens.
my crontab file
# m h ...
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SSH fails in Crontab after reboot
I am regularly running a shell script through Crontab that uses SSH to connect to a server. If I run that script manually it runs through successfully. Within the same session Crontab will ...
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How can I use cron to restart apache in some conditions
This is the first time I'm using cron. I want to restart the apacher in my server if the amount of available memory goes less than 500 mb. To do so I wrote the following script:
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Ubuntu 16.04LTS Create Cron Job in cron.daily that will display the contents of auth.log to folder in every users home directory?
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS user
Hi guys, I am a newb here and I have been searching these forums and google to no avail. My searches have not found the specific info that I need.
This is personal project of ...