Environment Raspberry Pi 2 raspbian-jessie-lite Windows 8.1 PuTTY 0.66 (SSH) Issue Can’t get cron to execute a python script with sudo. The script deals with GPIO input so it should be called with sudo. The program is supposed to save temperature and humidity to files but cat temp.txt and cat humid.txt …
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cron-job linux apache ssl
I have a server installed with apache2 and drupal 6. In my server, I have installed a module which need to use cron. I have a SSL certificate installed too. In my crontab y have this configuration: My server work but if I write this configuration in my sites-enabled/000-default: my module with cron stops work…
crontab not executing, is different user for cron and crontab the issue?
I am using cygwin version 2.3.1(0.291/5/3) in Win7 and have been trying for hours to get my crontab scheduled job to run. In my eyes, the thing that could be an issue is that my cron process and my crontab process have different owners and I am not sure how to fix that. I have created a crontab task that
flock: -c requires exactly one command argument
We have multiple cronjobs running on our system. The problem is that we run them every hour, and therefore sometimes the cronjob didn’t finish and a new instance has started. Because of that, we wanted to use flock so the script only gets executed once. However, when I have this in my crontab or run it …
Redirect all output of the java program to log file
I have scheduled my jar file by saving this line at the end of the crontab: Cron has started the job, also created the log file, but there is nothing in that file. Any idea why is that? I am doing System.out.println() in my program. I have added write permissions to everyone for that file. Could it happen tha…
root user of linux spanning lots of processes of python script uncontrollably
I wrote a python script to work with a message queue and the script was launched by crontab. I removed from crontab but the root user of my linux system keeps launching it every 9 minutes. I’ve rebooted system and restarted cron but this script keeps getting executed. Any idea how to keep it from happen…
Linux ubuntu how to stop cron status mails like “Cron /usr/bin/php /var/www/myproject”
Since couple of days i’m getting unwanted cron status emails from my server. Tried MAILTO=”” but still receiving mails. Please help me to get rid of this emails. Thanks in advance. Answer cron will email you anything that appears on stdout, so redirect stdout to /dev/null in your crontab ent…
laravel 4.2 liebig package work on localhost but fail in server cron job command
i want to fire some function to get news about football from rss i used laravel4.2 https://github.com/liebig/cron as that it work correctly when i use cmd php artisan cron:run in my computer but when use the server cron job command /usr/bin/php /home/public_html/interestoo.com/artisan cron:run i don’t f…
Crontab not starting command on reboot
I need a command to run at reboot. This command is called script.sh This command pipes input to a python program I wrote called test.py. The problem is the program is not running when I check the processes.The syslog file states that it started the command on reboot, but it is not running. my crontab entry lo…
crontab not working under arch linux
I tried to set up a schedule to remove the old file and folder after several days. I put the following code in a script file and tried to use crontab to run it every day. The find command worked fine. but the crontab seems not execute the script file. I also use crontab for other tasks, i.e. rsync, they