1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi all, A friend of mine accidently erased all crontab entries by typing crontab -r. Can anyone pls. help me on this. Is it possible that a backup file is available other than files from the backup tape. Or is it retrievable ??? Thnx, MK (6 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi! I'm a bit noob on Unix/Linux world, so sorry any lame question i may make... Oh.. and my english too.. is not so famous lol.. The deal is to use crontab to change my admin password every weak to something like "mypasswordcurrrentday" that is... i want evey weak to change my password but... (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hey guys Just need some help with crontab.Iam looking for a script that will alert particular user about its change through sendmail.We are using bash here. --CoolKid (3 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Friends, I need to change crontab entries in prod. $crontab -l -> using this i can see the entries only Plese tell me how to edit this crontab and how to change the entires Waiting for ...... Thanks In advance friends Krish. (2 Replies)

5. Solaris

hi guys. can someone tell me what will happen if there are two identical crontab entry for an application. For example 03 23 * * 1 /usr/vt/crondemo 03 23 * * 1 /usr/vt/crondemo will the file crondemo run twice, once or wont run at all?? (2 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I have scheduled a script to run every five minutes through crontab. If there is any issue with the script which may need manual intervention, I have used the mailx commands. But at the same time, I would want the cron to be disabled until the issue is resolved. Once things are fine,... (2 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi friends, Actually i wrote many scripts in korn shell for time saving activity in storage domain. But every week i am spending some time for the running of script. So every Monday i wants to run my scripts automatically. So corn will be helpful according to my friend's opinion. But I don't... (5 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have created a shell script "abcd.sh" and script should run after every 10 min., For that I will create below entry in the crontab file by using command crontab -e */10 * * * * /cdr/work/proc_raw/abcd.sh >> /dev/null 2>&1 I wish to know whether above entry is correct or I have to make entry... (2 Replies)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, We are currently running AIX 6.1 TL4. There are around 30 ksh scripts that are ran from crontab which if an error occurs or a problem with an ftp unix sends the out of the ksh script which goest to our console via the local user hci which is viewed by the mail command. I've tired adding... (2 Replies)

10. Red Hat

Hi, 1. How can I list all the crontab entries of all system users (like root, adm, sys etc.) as we have multiple files like /etc/crontab , /var/spool/cron, /etc/cron.d, /etc/cron.daily, /etc/cron.hourly, /etc/cron.monthly etc. 2. How can I list all the crontab entries of ALL users on a... (1 Reply)