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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi there,
I need to create a crone job to backup certain files on my disk without root permissions.
Also if I will be able to edit cronetab then I need to know how to edit it with any editor other than vim :mad: (5 Replies)
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Dear Experts,
I want to create cronjob with the following steps:
1. go to directory /home/logs/
$cd /home/logs/
2. copy to /tmp/ the most recent file with "prefix" local_data_ and sufix ".gz"
ls -ltr
drwxr-xr- 4096 Nov 24 2009 bak
drwxr-xr-x 24096 Aug... (6 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
OK,
So complete newbie here. I would normally do this in PHP or through my FTP program script but I can't in this case (the files are not coming from me, coming from a third party FTP upload).
I have an FTP server (Linux) accepting files coming in from a standard FTP program. Each file... (2 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello All,
Hope this finds you well. I am creating this shell script that will create cron jobs in crontab file. What I am provided with is the start time , intervals and # of trials. Based of Start time ( say 7:15 am ) and interval being 15 minutes, # of trial being 5 , I should create cron... (5 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi all,
I'm so embarrasingly new; apologies.
So here's my dilemma; files are being uploaded to the server via a php script... this is therefore assigning ownership to 'nobody' rather than the account 'user'.
It's screwing with the permissions and then the owner can't ftp download images... (2 Replies)
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6. HP-UX
Hi Experts,
I'm a SAP Basis, I have a small doubt would request you please help on this...
1. I wold like to copy files from one system to another system?
as per my knowledge "we have to mount the prod filesystem on the quality box and do a copy every day thru crontab script, or do it via... (2 Replies)
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7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
We have a script that we run manually, we want to set it up so that it will run automatically via cron, the problem is during the ftp process nothing is put, the script logs in changes directory fine, but nothing is put to the directory. I have tried it as root, a power user, etc. I have made the... (4 Replies)
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am new to cron and am trying to set a cron job that will run everyday at 2 to go out to a server (via ftp with user name and password) and get a file and then bring it back to my sever. Below is what I have but it doesn't seem to be working. Any help would be appreciated.
cron command - will... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: bernfuss
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
How do I write a perl script to get the cron jobs? I could do a
perl -e ' system "crontab -l > jobs.txt " ';
Is there a better way?
Then I can use perl to make changes to jobs.txt. How can I submit the changes.
I suppose I could use system "crontab jobs.txt", is there a better way?
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am writing a script that will be placed in a crontab, which basically retrieves a file that is overwritten everyday (with current customer data) and then sent to another company. I was wondering what the best way to ensure that ftp was successful and notification of a success or failure message.... (3 Replies)
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