CRON-APT(8) System Manager's Manual CRON-APT(8)NAME
cron-apt -- program to update the system using apt-get
SYNOPSIS
cron-apt [configfile]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the cron-apt command.
cron-apt is a program that uses the information in /etc/cron-apt/action.d/ as arguments to apt-get line by line in file order.
OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is
included below. For a complete description, see the Info files.
--help
Show summary of options.
CONFIGURATION
Configuration can be done by editing /etc/cron-apt/config and by adding rules to /etc/cron-apt/action.d/ The variables that you can set in
/etc/cron-apt/config is documented in the configuration example in /usr/share/doc/cron-apt/examples/config
From version 0.5.0 the optional FILTERCTRLM attribute is deprecated.
SEE ALSO
apt-get (1)
aptitude (1)
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Ola Lundqvist ola@inguza.com for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). This manual is
free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
CRON-APT(8)
Hi,
I am accessing CRON via telnet and want to set up some jobs. I have typed crontab -e to edit my cronfile but I can't seem to enter anything when I type on my keyboard. All I have is a flashing cursor at the top with ~ on the start of each line.
How can I enter the jobs and save this... (9 Replies)
Just I'm trying to find script, which will do the following job:
1. as a CRON-Job it shoult
a) delete files which will be either older than 24 hours or
b) all files within
a) a directory deleting recursive
b) only a special directory.
2. write an error-/Delete_log... (9 Replies)
Hello expert,
What I want is to determine whether the script is called from CRON or it is executed interactively?
I tried the following but no luck:
#!/bin/ksh
cronID=`pgrep -x cron`
GPID=`ps -ef -o ppid,pid | grep " $PPID$" | awk '{print $1}'`
if ; then
echo I am being run... (15 Replies)
Hi
We are running SCO ver 5. Recently the cron daemon stopped running on its own. How do I find out why? How do I restart/stop it?
I typed cron but it didn't work. Will rebooting it do the trick or can I manually start and stop the cron daemon?
Please help.
Thanks & Regards. (9 Replies)
I scheduled a cron job to run @ 1:00 as follows ,
00 01 * * * /app/cbf/CLIF/version-1.0.0.0/scripts/archival.sh
Please find the archival.sh script.
But cron is throwing a mail stating sqlplus command not found
So can anybody suggest what might be the problem ??? (13 Replies)
I have run into a problem where about a dozen machines, all the same x86_64 2.6.12 GNU/Linux. For some reason these machines will fill up their /var partition (10G), because their logs never get rotated... Unfortunately, there is no error message from logrotate (would be in /var/log/messages) and... (8 Replies)
We have an email engine in our corporation which is installed in Solaris based machine. It is currently facing delays in transactions. So a temporary work around was deployed that is a cronjob was made for restarting email engine every hour. We tested in lab system and it worked pretty okay but in... (10 Replies)
Okay I am not the best at UNIX, so please excuse this if it is a complete ID 10-T error (look at that for a moment...)
Logging in via telnet to the server, I want to create a cron job to run various "canned reports" in SAS on a regular basis. No problem, I have the directories, .profile... (14 Replies)
Hi, I have lost a lot of hours by looking for answer but without results.. My problem is that:
I use Debian GNU/Linux and I want to configure cron in order to run rtorrent every day between 24.00 and 09.00. That part I have achieved, but I couldn't forced cron to make it visible on any of my... (10 Replies)
Hi,
Can anyone help in editing CRON (OR) write a script to run another script every second saturday??
I tried to make use of DATE command to find the day but couldnt proceed further.
your help is highly appreciated!
Thanks,
Mahi (11 Replies)
Hi,
The client wants to set up cronjob for trigger alerts to be sent between the hours of 6 AM PST and 12 AM PST . Could you please help me the command to setup cron.
scriptname :- triggeralert.ksh
Thanks in advance (16 Replies)
Hi!
I have a debian linux VPS and i am wondering how would someone be able to hack into it , in what ways ?
I've asked a more knowledgeable friend and he said the only way someone would be able to get into my VPS is via FTP or SSH, are there some other ways someone can enter my machine ?
I... (18 Replies)
This is the error:
http://imgur.com/1ywCKac
I've tried Googling forever. I've tried this command:
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
It says the package is not found.
Nothing works. Please help. (9 Replies)
Hope you can help with a queuy i have. Server OS is HP-UX
my cron runs like this:
* * * * * /test/scripts/1_min_jobs.sh 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null
0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /test/scripts/jobs_5mins.sh 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null
0,15,30,45 * * * *... (10 Replies)