The best thing I can recommend would be to use full path names in the script to other jobs you are calling.
Also, cron normally changes directory to your home directory - this of course depends on your version/release of cron. So even if you execute the $HOME/cronscripts/tmp.job script, it will execute as if you were sitting in your home directory and typed cronscripts/tmp.job
Another quick hint that has made it easier when building scripts that call other executables:
If you have a bunch of files in similar or the same directory, use variables:
It just seems to keep it simpler, plus, if you ever have to move your script, they're easier to "fix".
Please can someone help me. I need to set up a cron job to measure CPU usage, Disk I/O and memory usage over a period of 1 minute along with the number of users logged into the system. I also need to send it to another user besides myself every hour. Please can someone help me! Thanks. (4 Replies)
Dear Guru,
I have submitted some cronjobs that has been running for quite sometimes. However, today I counter some cronjob did not run. Can you please explain what causes this to happen. Any system setting that limit number of cronjob per minutes to be started, etc?
Thanks.
Kelly (1 Reply)
hi
iam new at unix.iam running a cronjob,which i want to run on the first day of every month at 1AM.this is what i have specified:
00 01 1 * *
is this corect? (1 Reply)
Hi,
I want to schedule a script on daily basis in morning 8:00 A.M and 5:00 P.M , how can i achieve this, i want the parameter
0 ? * * *
what will be the second parameter in my case.
Regards (1 Reply)
hi everyone I'm newbie in this forum hope I can get some help here :)
I have a command in crontab that executed every 1 minute
sometime this command need more than 1 minute to finish
the problem is, the crontab execute this command although it's not finish processing yet and causing the system... (7 Replies)
Hi I am very new to linux. I want to run a cronjob every 15 minutes that checks a directory for files. If the directory contains more than ten files I want it to send an email to me.
All I have is this...
*/15 * * * * ls -l | wc -l | | mail -s "This is just a test"
I would... (2 Replies)
Dear all,
I wrote a script and set it as a cron job to automatically download the data from the website.
Here is the problem, when I run this script in terminal, it works well, while it can not download the files when I run it as a cron job, I feel so weird.
The script as follows:... (28 Replies)
I'm running a few cronjobs under a differnt user name that basically do the same thing:
/usr/bin/find /home/userid/userid/archives -mtime +30 -type f -exec /usr/bin/gzip -1vN {} \\\; ; /usr/bin/mv /home/userid/userid/archives/*.gz /msgs/archive_msgs >/dev/null 2>&1
Seems to be working except... (12 Replies)
How to set cronjob for 48 hours.
I can set for 2 days as shown below.
* * */2 * *
It is creating confusion for 30 days & 31 days per month. (3 Replies)
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dh_bugfiles
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dh_bugfiles - install bug reporting customization files into package build directories
SYNOPSIS
dh_bugfiles [-A] [debhelperoptions]
DESCRIPTION
dh_bugfiles is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing bug reporting customization files (bug scripts and/or bug control
files and/or presubj files) into package build directories.
FILES
debian/package.bug-script
This is the script to be run by the bug reporting program for generating a bug report template. This file is installed as
usr/share/bug/package in the package build directory if no other types of bug reporting customization files are going to be installed
for the package in question. Otherwise, this file is installed as usr/share/bug/package/script. Finally, the installed script is given
execute permissions.
debian/package.bug-control
It is the bug control file containing some directions for the bug reporting tool. This file is installed as
usr/share/bug/package/control in the package build directory.
debian/package.bug-presubj
The contents of this file are displayed to the user by the bug reporting tool before allowing the user to write a bug report on the
package to the Debian Bug Tracking System. This file is installed as usr/share/bug/package/presubj in the package build directory.
OPTIONS -A, --all
Install debian/bug-* files to ALL packages acted on when respective debian/package.bug-* files do not exist. Normally, debian/bug-*
will be installed to the first package only.
SEE ALSO
/usr/share/doc/reportbug/README.developers.gz
debhelper(1)
This program is a part of debhelper.
AUTHOR
Modestas Vainius <modestas@vainius.eu>
11.1.6ubuntu2 2018-05-10 DH_BUGFILES(1)