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Command works in terminal but do not work in crontab [duplicate]

i have a problem with executing terminal simple command in crontab. Terminal view: touch /home/eugene/`date +%d-%m-%y-%s`.txt Crontab view: * * * * * root touch /home/eugene/`date +%d-%...
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Cron only runs first part of script [duplicate]

This is the script I use: find /path/backups/ -type f -mtime -2 -printf '%P\n' | rsync -avz --progress --delete --exclude-from=- -e "ssh -p 512" /path/backups/ me@host:/remote/path/server-backups/ ...
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Writing a specific format of time in a text file every minute using Cron [duplicate]

I'm rather new to Linux. I recently wanted to learn how to work with Cron. So I wrote the following line to crontab file and it worked: * * * * * date >> //home/os/system-date.txt This line will ...
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Cron, not working [duplicate]

Issue I have this cronjob. 5 12 * * * find /var/www/html -name "*.php" -o -name "*.htm*" -o -name "*.css" | tar -cf /var/www/export/$(date +"%m-%d-%Y")-backup-fs.tar.gz -T - But it is not working, ...
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Check if a cronjob still writes to a log file

I want to define a cronjob like this: @hourly /path/to/my/script.sh &> "/path/to/my/logs/$(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S.txt)" So it should write the output of the script to a log file. ...
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Automatic backups of MySQL database with Cronjob

I would like to backup my MySQL database with a cron job, but I cannot make it work. This is the code that I am using: 0 2 * * * mysqldump -u root toko_db | gzip > /var/backup/toko_db_`date '+%Y-%m-...
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right format of date command in crontab

I'm trying to output the current date in this format to a file using /etc/crontab. But crontab doesn't like this formatting. Changing sh to bash doesn't help. my crontab: * * * * * root echo "$(...
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Why won't this command run in cron?

I have this command echo "$(date +"%T") $(sensors | grep -Eo "[0-9]+\.[0-9]+" | head -1)" >> /home/me/temp_log.txt that gets some sensor data and puts it into a file and I want to run it ...
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"tcpdump" command in "crontab" crashes immediately after running the "crontab" jobs

I want crontab to start a tcpdump command, but tcpdump seems to crash immediately after running the crontab jobs. This is the command that I am trying to run: @reboot /usr/sbin/tcpdump -l enpls0 -G ...
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'sudo crontab -e' Jobs Are Not Running on Fresh Install of Ubuntu 21.10 (Gnu/Linux 5.13.0-30-Generic X86_64)

I recently did a fresh install of Ubuntu. I am trying to setup some cron jobs using sudo crontab -e My crontab is as follows: # Edit this file to introduce tasks to be run by cron. # # Each task to ...
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CRON doesn't run

I had to reinstall a whole stack on an EC2 instance because a colleague mess up the previous one (not able to SSH anymore). Long Story Short: New EC2 is running. We have to run 2 jobs by a CRON job. ...
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Cronjob not running - I tried many suggestions from StackEx - still nothing

I'm about to descend into madness over a cronjob I'm trying to set up. I cannot for the life of me (after spending many hours/effort) figure it out, hope you can help. I have a Python script at /...
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