Ref: "build crontab from a text file" in same forum. (I am not allowed to post URL's in the first post)
We are reorganizing our UNIX Crontab file by first making changes in a word pad text file. The intent is to then copy it back to Crontab. Will this work? Copy and Paste does not seem to work.
From the crontab man page -
Code: So, something like this:
Code:
will have to have ALL of the entries needed from the old crontab, because this wipes all of the lines in the existing crontab file.
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My script does many actions as root. A part of this script is to add a new crontab entry for a normal user.
I used this method and now need to transfer "mynotepadfile" to crontab of "myuser". But the method "crontab [file]" only works for the user invoking it. So this will edit root's crontab, but not someone else's. At the same time, the whole script cannot be executed as non-root.
How would the syntax "cat mynotepadfile | crontab -" change?
Hi
I am not able to edit crontab.
Following is the comand that is being issued
$crontab -e
2764 ............ This is what I am able to see
But when I do
$crontab -l
List of all the crontab entry is displayed.
Also I am seeing one entry in my /etc/cron.d
prw------- 1 root ... (6 Replies)
Does anyone know if this is possible?
I want to give some users access to root's crontab but only with a read privilege.
Is this possible to do or can only root or people with full root sudo view root's cron? (4 Replies)
Good morning everybody. I have just receiedv a complaint from our DBA saying that if he create a scripts to run some Oracle performance scripts using crontab and the scheduling part is ok but the job is failed when I checked on /var/adm/cron/log.
I have tried his scripts using Oracle id directly... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I seem to be having a problem with accumulation of root CRON jobs occuring when I have a user's cron job(s) running.
Here is an example of a user's crontab file:
*/1 * * * * echo "hello" > /dev/nullps aux|grep CRON
root 14333 0.0 0.0 91236 2172 ? S ... (12 Replies)
I want to set up a file with crontab to run the cron deamon so I can use at to schedule jobs. I think the crontab file (or whatever you call it) has to be set up. Currently, I don't have a crontab file (I checked by typing sudo crontab -u myusername -l), and I don't know the syntax for creating... (6 Replies)
I'm using fedora 5 and sql 5.0. I'm trying to edit the crontab to perform automatic backups of my database. For some reason it isn't working. Here is what I have so far.
15 2 * * * /usr/bin/mysqldump -opt -all-databases u root -ppassword -h localhost... (10 Replies)
Hi all,
I am trying the following
I am hoping that the crontab would be changed.
but it prints the previous crontab and says
Can anyone tell me the correct ksh command that should be used here?
I don't want to edit the crontab with crontab -e, I need to edit it via ksh.
Thank... (2 Replies)
I've been through many threads before i decide to create a separate thread.
I can't really find the solution to my (simple) problem.
Here's what I'm trying to achieve:
As "canar" user I want to run a command, let's say "/opt/ocaml/bin/ocaml" as "duck" user.
The only to achieve this is to... (1 Reply)
Hi everyone,
I got error which is "!bad user (root)" in crontab...
I tried changing password,
I checked etc/cron/cron.allow and cron.deny,
And also I checked the permissions of my files,
its(my crontab script) still not working....
Please help... (12 Replies)
Hi!! one strange problem occurred with my RHEL 5 box.
i'm having logs folder with ownership of non-root user. Created some files with root user under logs folder.
here is the scene:
-rw-r----- 1 root root 1048227 Feb 28 12:34 SystemOut_13.02.28_12.34.10.log
-rw-r----- 1 root root ... (6 Replies)
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set::crontab
Crontab(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Crontab(3)NAME
Set::Crontab - Expand crontab(5)-style integer lists
SYNOPSIS
$s = Set::Crontab->new("1-9/3,>15,>30,!23", [0..30]);
if ($s->contains(3)) { ... }
DESCRIPTION
Set::Crontab parses crontab-style lists of integers and defines some utility functions to make it easier to deal with them.
Syntax
Numbers, ranges, *, and step values all work exactly as described in crontab(5). A few extensions to the standard syntax are described
below.
< and >
<N selects the elements smaller than N from the entire range, and adds them to the set. >N does likewise for elements larger than N.
! !N excludes N from the set. It applies to the other specified range; otherwise it applies to the specified ranges (i.e. "!3" with a
range of "1-10" corresponds to "1-2,4-10", but ">3,!7" in the same range means "4-6,8-10").
Functions
new($spec, [@range])
Creates a new Set::Crontab object and returns a reference to it.
contains($num)
Returns true if $num exists in the set.
list()
Returns the expanded list corresponding to the set.
The functions described above croak if they are called with incorrect arguments.
SEE ALSO crontab(5)AUTHOR
Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org>
Copyright 2001 Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org>
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.12.1 2008-07-30 Crontab(3)