Questions tagged [cron]
Cron is a job scheduler that allows users to run commands periodically.
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Cron shutdown behavior in AWS
I'm just trying to understand the behavior I'm seeing. I tried adding this line to my AWS EC2's (root) crontab:
00 00 * * * shutdown -h now
But this never executed. When I added this to my own ec2-...
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job started by BusyBox crond doesn't complete
I need a script to run daily in an Alpine docker container.
I have set it up as follows:
copy the script to /etc/periodic/daily
start the crond daemon in the container's ENTRYPOINT script: /usr/sbin/...
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Systemd service to keep a fixed number of the same script running
I have been developing a task based system recently for a PHP project, which consists of tasks stored in a SQL database (MariaDB) for a queue, and a task worker PHP script to go through the queue and ...
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On my Ubuntu-based distro (Linux Lite), how to auto delete all network connections, disable Wi-Fi and networking as part of booting process?
My end goal here is to have no saved network connections, no enabled Wi-Fi or networking each time I boot up my computer, so that I have to go through a sequence of steps in order to access internet. ...
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Linux command does not run from crontab, but it runs fine from the Linux shell [duplicate]
I set up the following cron job to check every minute if port 8088 is listening. If it isn't, the CLI should write the message
Thu Jul 3 12:50:09 UTC 2025 bad
to the log file /tmp/crob_log.
Here is ...
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Alpine linux (LXC) not running cron jobs
I have been trying for a long to make the crontab entries to run, but it doesn't matter what Time / schedule I enter, it doesn't seem to work. I have confirmed my current time zone with date command &...
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cron every thirty minutes from 13:00 to 17:00 seems easy, but the obvious entry also runs it at 17:30
cronie 1.5.2 on RHEL 8.10
This entry runs foobar every 30 minutes from 13:00 to 17:30.
*/30 13-17 * * 1-5 foobar.sh
Is there some clever (but not hackish, like adding "exit if it's 17:30&...
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Merge two different times in cron format
I want to combine two different times which are in cron format into single time in bash shell script:
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time1 = 15 03 * * 1-5
time2 = 15 03 * * 6
result should be
15 03 * * 1-6
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time1 = ...
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Executing a cron task once a month at a random date and time
Ubuntu 22.04 or AlmaLinux 9.5
I've seen a lot of questions about running scripts in random times during a day using bash's $RANDOM but a month exceeds the limit it has.
How can I do that?
It is a xdg-...
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How does one run cron jobs in one container that does stuff in another?
I am on Kubernetes. I need to be able to write and run cron jobs in a pod. I can't use the CronJob workload. The solution I found is to run cron jobs from a cron sidecar container. I write cron jobs ...
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"rm -f" e-mails me an error, how do I prevent that?
I have cron "clean up" some stuff overnight. A simple rm -f thisandthat.
But if there is no file thisandthat, rm -f sends an e-mail to me at [email protected] - No such file or directory.
I ...
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Dbus issue when trying to run Wayland session
My distro is based on Slackware, therefore it doesn't have systemd, but SysVinit + elogind. I'm trying to use LightDM to initiliaze my desktop environment sessions, but I have either dbus services ...
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How to send a "keypress" to an instance of 'mpg123' started under 'cron'?
I use mpg123 to play a list of songs while I work. The host that actually runs mpg123 and plays the music is a local, headless system, but I can connect to it over SSH. I start mpg123 on this host in ...
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The shell script run by crond keeps stopping after five minutes
As titled, I am using CentOS 6.10
Here is part of my shell script, it runs find manually.
#!/bin/sh
backup_dir="/mnt/backup/website"
all_web="$(</mnt/backup/list.txt)"
for web ...
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Executable not found when executed with cron but works fine when running from CLI
Got this cron, which run some scrapy code
* * * * * cd /var/projects/project-1/scrappers && python3 runner.py
It return this error on the logs
Continue with error: [Errno 2] No such file or ...
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