I am having problems with a sparc5 solaris 7 box, when i try to edit cron, (crontab -e as root), it says
$ crontab -e
0
and then nothing, if i enter anything it errors out but does accept q for quit. But doesn't bring up my editor of the cron file. How can I troubleshoot this?
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Hi,
I have put the following entry in crontab and it is NOT working
1 * * * * && /mybin/myjob.sh
As today is Sep 26th, Iam using NF-4 to test.
Thanks (2 Replies)
Dear all
We have SunOS 5.10 Generic_127127-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V250
i have scheduled cronjob but its not working
Crontab details
15 15 * * * /d5/oratest/testdb/hotbackup_new.sh TEST247
15 15 * * * mkdir -p rajesh /d4/appltest
Crontab log details
> CMD: mkdir... (4 Replies)
I have a script which name is sicaklik.sh
It is in the root directory.
I can run manually but I want to run automatically every 3 minutes but it is not working. WHY?
#whoami
root
#crontab -l
#ident "@(#)root 1.21 04/03/23 SMI"
3 * * * * sh ./sicaklik.sh
#ls -l sicaklik*... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I had setup crontab to execute my script every day midnight 00:00
Below are the current settings.
crontab -l
0 0 * * * /apps/bin/compress.ksh_moht > /dev/null 2>&1
Should it not work?
I need help fix this? (8 Replies)
I can run manually script of ntopdump.sh but crontab can't run this script very five minutes.
# crontab -l
*/3 * * * * root sh /root/ping.sh
*/5 * * * * root sh /root/ntopdump.sh
#
# pwd
/root
# ls -l
total 88
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 1645 Jun 14 19:01 anaconda-ks.cfg
drwxrwxr-x 2 root... (14 Replies)
Shell = ksh
Hi all,
I scheduled an automated job on my application server like below,
30 13 * * 1-5 $HOME/my_script.sh
However the script was not executed as expected. Any reason that may cause this to happen? (6 Replies)
Hi,
When I set the crontab to run every minute, every hour, it works fine.
* * * * * env > /tmp/env.output
However I want to run it every day at 8:00 AM and it does not run.
* 8 * * * env > /tmp/env.output
I ran the 'date' command which says it's 8AM PST and also the 'TZ'... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I know this is a common topic. I'm trying to launch a perl script using a contab -e entry. I've been trying diff options but nothing seems to work:
My cron is running:
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
root 3755 1 0 Nov27 ? 00:00:00 crond
This... (4 Replies)
Dear Friends,
I have Red Hat Linux Enterprise version 6.3. running SAP and oracle.
I have created one crontab for user orasid to execute one job periodically.
But it is not executing. I have checked crontab service is running.
Please help in the matter.
Regards,
Bhagawati Pandey (5 Replies)
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newmail - notify users of new mail in mailboxes
SYNOPSIS
interval] [file-spec]...
DESCRIPTION
The utility monitors your incoming mailbox or specified mail folders.
The basic operation is that the program checks the folders each interval seconds (default 60) and lists any new mail that has arrived in
any of the mailboxes, indicating the sender's name, and the subject of the message.
Without any options, runs in the background at a default interval of 60 seconds to monitor the user's incoming mailbox. So that they are
suitable for display on an already active screen, messages are prefixed with a pair of pointer characters as follows:
If there is no subject, the message is displayed. If there is more than one folder, output lines are prefixed by the folder-name or the
prefix string specified by file-spec.
runs until you log out or explicitly kill it. It can internally reset itself if the mailbox shrinks in size and then grows again.
Options
recognizes the following options:
Set the time interval between mailbox checks
to the value specified, in seconds. The default is 60.
interval must be less than 2^32 seconds. If it is set to less than 10 seconds, warns that such short intervals are
not recommended.
Run the program within the current window in the foreground
with a more succinct output format.
The output formats become:
Operands
recognizes the following operand:
file-spec Specifies the name of a folder and an optional prefix string, in the form:
Metacharacters such as and indicate the folder directory. The default is the value of the environment variable or
EXAMPLES
Check incoming mailbox every 60 seconds:
Check incoming mailboxes of and every 15 seconds for new messages.
Monitor the incoming mailbox of user and the folder in your mail directory called Prefix all new messages in the incoming mailbox of with
the string and the new messages in the folder with Also, monitor folder
AUTHOR
was developed by HP.
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