Re: Daily periodic cronjob generates core dump

2013-06-16 Thread C. L. Martinez
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Greg Larkin glar...@freebsd.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/14/13 6:26 AM, C. L. Martinez wrote: Hi all, I have a FreeBSD 9.1 host (fully patched) with ZFS. Every day I am receiving in security output this message:

Daily periodic cronjob generates core dump

2013-06-14 Thread C. L. Martinez
Hi all, I have a FreeBSD 9.1 host (fully patched) with ZFS. Every day I am receiving in security output this message: fbsd.domain.local kernel log messages: +++ /tmp/security.AT1oDecp 2013-06-14 03:02:10.0 + +pid 75930 (try), uid 0: exited on signal 10 (core dumped) pid 76241

Daily periodic cronjob generates core dump

2013-06-14 Thread Robert Huff
C. L. Martinez writes: I have a FreeBSD 9.1 host (fully patched) with ZFS. Every day I am receiving in security output this message: fbsd.domain.local kernel log messages: +++ /tmp/security.AT1oDecp 2013-06-14 03:02:10.0 + +pid 75930 (try), uid 0: exited on

Re: Daily periodic cronjob generates core dump

2013-06-14 Thread C. L. Martinez
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: C. L. Martinez writes: I have a FreeBSD 9.1 host (fully patched) with ZFS. Every day I am receiving in security output this message: fbsd.domain.local kernel log messages: +++ /tmp/security.AT1oDecp 2013-06-14

Re: Daily periodic cronjob generates core dump

2013-06-14 Thread Robert Huff
C. L. Martinez writes: Have you added anything to the default system crontab? Are I have added a script to rebuild packages every week with poudriere: And if you comment that out? Robert Huff

Re: Daily periodic cronjob generates core dump

2013-06-14 Thread C. L. Martinez
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: C. L. Martinez writes: Have you added anything to the default system crontab? Are I have added a script to rebuild packages every week with poudriere: And if you comment that out?

Re: Daily periodic cronjob generates core dump

2013-06-14 Thread Jason Birch
Uhmm .. I will try it ... but for what reason?? It would be nice to see if anything else in the crontab might be causing it. You can also run `periodic security` as root and see if it manfiests the same way. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Daily periodic cronjob generates core dump

2013-06-14 Thread C. L. Martinez
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Jason Birch jbi...@jbirch.net wrote: Uhmm .. I will try it ... but for what reason?? It would be nice to see if anything else in the crontab might be causing it. You can also run `periodic security` as root and see if it manfiests the same way. Running

Re: Cronjob Cvsup - What?

2013-01-27 Thread Zyumbilev, Peter
On 27/01/2013 06:34, Lowell Gilbert wrote: If you needed version control features on your ports tree (especially if you were regularly contributing changes to ports), getting and updating your tree through subversion would have some extra features you might want, but it doesn't sound as if

Re: Cronjob Cvsup - What?

2013-01-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 27/01/2013 00:11, W. D. wrote: What would be the best Cron command to keep ports updated on a daily basis? Try this as a crontab entry: 0 3 * * * * /usr/sbin/portsnap cron update Two points to note: 1) The 'cron' verb is important for anyone setting up an automated job like this.

Re: Cronjob Cvsup - What?

2013-01-27 Thread Mike Clarke
On Sunday 27 Jan 2013 09:46:51 Matthew Seaman wrote: to get yourself a portsnap-ready copy of the ports tree. You only need to do that once, but you should move aside any pre-existing copy of /usr/ports obtained by any means other than portsnap(8) before you do (but keep anything under

Re: Cronjob Cvsup - What?

2013-01-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 27/01/2013 08:35, Zyumbilev, Peter wrote: Last 10 years I am using cvsup. Any good guide for the transition to subversion ? Most of the guides around freebsd.org are aimed at developers who will be using SVN read-write. For simple read-only use (ie. not checking anything into the

Re: Cronjob Cvsup - What?

2013-01-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 27/01/2013 10:07, Mike Clarke wrote: I suppose the best approach with ZFS would be to make a snapshot immediately prior to running portsnap. Yes. That would do the trick quite neatly. In fact, snapshot before each time you run portsnap. Cheers Matthew -- Dr Matthew J

Re: Cronjob Cvsup - What?

2013-01-27 Thread Zyumbilev, Peter
On 27/01/2013 12:46, Matthew Seaman wrote: Cheers, Matthew Matthew, Fantastic howto ! Thanks ! Really a good job...as usual :-) Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Cronjob Cvsup - What?

2013-01-27 Thread MFV
Hello Matthew, Thanks for an outstanding piece of documentation. It resolves a number of concerns I had and convinced me to move from portsnap where I discovered an apparent bug that gave me security concerns. More specifically I manually edited /usr/ports/UPDATING and portsnap did not

Re: Cronjob Cvsup - What?

2013-01-27 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:51:12 -0500 MFV mrk...@acm.org wrote: The only downside with svn seems to be the 728 MB footprint. With hard disc space running at around 10c per gigabyte it's a minor issue. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___

Re: Cronjob Cvsup - What?

2013-01-27 Thread Robert Huff
Steve O'Hara-Smith writes: The only downside with svn seems to be the 728 MB footprint. With hard disc space running at around 10c per gigabyte it's a minor issue. Doesn't that depend on whose money it is? Robert Huff

Re: Cronjob Cvsup - What?

2013-01-27 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013, Matthew Seaman wrote: 2) Choose a protocol for access the SVN servers. Your choices in order of preference are svn:// https:// http:// Use svn:// for best performance. If you're concerned about MITM attacks injecting trojans into the

Re: Cronjob Cvsup - What?

2013-01-27 Thread RW
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:51:12 -0500 MFV wrote: Hello Matthew, Thanks for an outstanding piece of documentation. It resolves a number of concerns I had and convinced me to move from portsnap where I discovered an apparent bug that gave me security concerns. More specifically I manually

Cronjob Cvsup - What?

2013-01-26 Thread W. D.
According to: http://www.freebsd.org/news/2012-compromise.html Cvsup is deprecated. If I have a Cron entry like: #- #Min HrDOM Mnth DOW Command # At 3:46 in the morning, everyday, as root, update the ports tree: 46

Re: Cronjob Cvsup - What?

2013-01-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
W. D. w...@us-webmasters.com writes: According to: http://www.freebsd.org/news/2012-compromise.html Cvsup is deprecated. If I have a Cron entry like: #- #Min HrDOM Mnth DOW Command # At 3:46 in the morning,

Re: Newsyslog | Cronjob faulty? (fwd)

2012-05-27 Thread Ian Smith
) -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 05:03:23 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au To: Jos Chrispijn ker...@webrz.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newsyslog | Cronjob faulty? In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 415, Issue 4, Message: 12 On Wed, 16 May 2012 21

Re: Newsyslog | Cronjob faulty?

2012-05-18 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 415, Issue 4, Message: 12 On Wed, 16 May 2012 21:44:53 +0200 Jos Chrispijn ker...@webrz.net wrote: At midnight (00.00) I run this cronjob from my crontab: Crontab: 00 * * * * rootnewsyslog By 'my' crontab, do you

Newsyslog | Cronjob faulty?

2012-05-16 Thread Jos Chrispijn
At midnight (00.00) I run this cronjob from my crontab: Crontab: 00 * * * * rootnewsyslog For some reason this goes wrong; (if I run 'newsyslog' on any other time, there is no error message). bzip2: Can't open input file /var/log/maillog.0

Re: Cronjob

2009-06-11 Thread Danijel Tasov
Paul Chvostek wrote: 0 1 28-31 * * test `date -v+1d '+%d'` -eq 1 /path/to/script You have to escape the percent sign in crontab with \: run. The entire command portion of the line, up to a newline or % character, will be executed by /bin/sh or by the shell specified

Re: Cronjob

2009-06-09 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 08 June 2009 17:37:14 Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 06:31:57PM +0400, Peter Andreev wrote: may be this solution will help you: [snip] * * 31 1/2 * * * 30 4/2 * * * 28 2 * This isn't right, surely? It goes wrong in August and stays wrong for the rest of the

Re: Cronjob

2009-06-09 Thread Peter Andreev
yes, you're right, thank you/ the right version will be: * * 31 1,3,5,7,8,10,12 * * * 30 4,6,9,11 * * * 28,29 2 * 2009/6/9 Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za On Monday 08 June 2009 17:37:14 Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 06:31:57PM +0400, Peter Andreev wrote: may be this

Re: Cronjob

2009-06-09 Thread Jos Chrispijn
Mike Jeays wrote: Isn't that a linuxism? Looking at the man pages for the date command for FreeBSD, it looks as if 'date -v+1d' will return tomorrow's date (and it does, I checked). The -d option is to do with daylight saving time. - eot- I see; will have that incorporated in the script.

Cronjob

2009-06-08 Thread Jos Chrispijn
I would like to execute a script on every last day of the month in my crontab. Can someone tell me how I should solve that as it doesn't know which month day is the last day of the month? Solving this in the script to be executed is no option. Thanks, Jos

Re: Cronjob

2009-06-08 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Jos Chrispijn j...@webrz.net wrote: I would like to execute a script on every last day of the month in my crontab. Can someone tell me how I should solve that as it doesn't know which month day is the last day of the month? If it really needs to be done on

Re: Cronjob

2009-06-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
Jos Chrispijn wrote: I would like to execute a script on every last day of the month in my crontab. Can someone tell me how I should solve that as it doesn't know which month day is the last day of the month? Solving this in the script to be executed is no option. I've done this before. My

Re: Cronjob

2009-06-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
put 12 lines, for each month and with the last day. On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Jos Chrispijn wrote: I would like to execute a script on every last day of the month in my crontab. Can someone tell me how I should solve that as it doesn't know which month day is the last day of the month? Solving

Re: Cronjob

2009-06-08 Thread Paul Chvostek
to be executed is no option. The only solutions I see are the three-cronjob approach: 0 1 31 1,3,5,7,8,10,12 * /path/to/script 0 1 28 2 * /path/to/script 0 1 30 4,6,9,11* /path/to/script Alternately, you could do this with a single cronjob by putting a little scripting

Re: Cronjob

2009-06-08 Thread Peter Andreev
may be this solution will help you: * * 31 jan,mar,may,jul,aug,oct,dec * * * 30 apr,jun,sep,nov * * * 28 feb * or: * * 31 1/2 * * * 30 4/2 * * * 28 2 * 2009/6/8 Jos Chrispijn j...@webrz.net I would like to execute a script on every last day of the month in my crontab. Can someone tell me

Re: Cronjob

2009-06-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 06:31:57PM +0400, Peter Andreev wrote: may be this solution will help you: * * 31 jan,mar,may,jul,aug,oct,dec * * * 30 apr,jun,sep,nov * * * 28 feb * or: * * 31 1/2 * * * 30 4/2 * * * 28 2 * Don't forget leapyear. jerry 2009/6/8 Jos Chrispijn

Re: Cronjob

2009-06-08 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 06:31:57PM +0400, Peter Andreev wrote: may be this solution will help you: * * 31 jan,mar,may,jul,aug,oct,dec * * * 30 apr,jun,sep,nov * * * 28 feb * or: * * 31 1/2 * * * 30 4/2 * * * 28 2 * Don't forget leapyear. 0 0

Re: Cronjob

2009-06-08 Thread Karl Vogel
On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:55:56 +0200, Jos Chrispijn j...@webrz.net said: J I would like to execute a script on every last day of the month in my J crontab. Can someone tell me how I should solve that as it doesn't know J which month day is the last day of the month? Solving this in the script

Re: Cronjob

2009-06-08 Thread Jos Chrispijn
Found another solution (for running @ 23:58): 58 23 * * * [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] /myscript thanks for all other suggestions, Jos Chrispijn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Cronjob

2009-06-08 Thread Mike Jeays
-- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca http://www.rotarycpmm.ca On June 8, 2009 02:56:31 pm Jos Chrispijn wrote: Found another solution (for running @ 23:58): 58 23 * * * [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] /myscript thanks for all other suggestions, Jos Chrispijn

Re: setup cronjob

2008-09-12 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
Darrell Betts wrote: I have wrote a small script put it in my home directory. I am trying to setup a cronjob to run it every six hours. When it runs the job I receive the error message /usr/home/test/cronjobs/test.sh: not found I have tripe checked the file permissions and they appear correct

setup cronjob

2008-09-11 Thread Darrell Betts
I have wrote a small script put it in my home directory. I am trying to setup a cronjob to run it every six hours. When it runs the job I receive the error message /usr/home/test/cronjobs/test.sh: not found I have tripe checked the file permissions and they appear correct so I am stumped

Re: setup cronjob

2008-09-11 Thread RW
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:12:35 -0400 Darrell Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have wrote a small script put it in my home directory. I am trying to setup a cronjob to run it every six hours. When it runs the job I receive the error message /usr/home/test/cronjobs/test.sh: not found I

Re: setup cronjob

2008-09-11 Thread Sahil Tandon
Darrell Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have wrote a small script put it in my home directory. I am trying to setup a cronjob to run it every six hours. When it runs the job I receive the error message /usr/home/test/cronjobs/test.sh: not found I have tripe checked the file permissions

Re: [freebsd-questions] cronjob - email messages sent

2008-04-07 Thread D Hill
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 at 09:38 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED]: D Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have several cronjob's set up on a server we have under the user root. I need to specify specific email addresses results are sent to. Using documentation from: man 5 crontab I thought I could

cronjob - email messages sent

2008-04-04 Thread D Hill
I have several cronjob's set up on a server we have under the user root. I need to specify specific email addresses results are sent to. Using documentation from: man 5 crontab I thought I could surround the jobs: ... MAILTO=root,someoneelse @hourly /usr/local/bin/mysqladmin -u

Expunging IMAP mailbox via cronjob : possible?

2006-10-08 Thread Garrett Cooper
I know this isn't really a FreeBSD question, but I was wondering if there was a means available where I can expunge my email automatically from my IMAP inboxes / folders (I have a wide variety of custom folders). I just find it tedious logging in via SSH to each host with pine and expunging

Re: Expunging IMAP mailbox via cronjob : possible?

2006-10-08 Thread Garrett Cooper
Garrett Cooper wrote: I know this isn't really a FreeBSD question, but I was wondering if there was a means available where I can expunge my email automatically from my IMAP inboxes / folders (I have a wide variety of custom folders). I just find it tedious logging in via SSH to each host

Problem with cronjob

2005-06-02 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Always worked well when I dump a script into the /etc/periodic/daily folder and set permissions to have a script run automatically each night. But this is not working for the Spamassassin rulesdujour script. I can run the script manually, no problem, any ideas? Here is the bottom of that

cronjob doesn't run???

2004-12-27 Thread Timothy Smith
i have an odd problem with this cronjob, #!/bin/sh cd /home/timothy burncd -f /dev/acd0c blank tar -zcvf ./burning/thunderbird.tar.gz ./.thunderbird/* tar -zcvf ./burning/Projects.tar.gz ./Projects/* tar -zcvf ./burning/cvsd.tar.gz /usr/local/cvsd/* mkisofs -L -l -relaxed-filenames -o tmp.iso

Re: cronjob doesn't run???

2004-12-27 Thread Tom Vilot
Might be a path issue. I had similar issues with cron (/etc/periodic/daily) if I didn't use a full path to the binaries. :c( i have an odd problem with this cronjob, #!/bin/sh cd /home/timothy burncd -f /dev/acd0c blank tar -zcvf ./burning/thunderbird.tar.gz ./.thunderbird/* tar -zcvf

save-entropy cronjob Added: not found every 10 minutes

2004-07-19 Thread Duane Winner
Hello, Does anybody know what is going on with the crobjob /usr/libexec/save-entropy that by default is scheduled to run every 10 minutes? I'm getting tons of log mail because of this, but I don't want to just comment out the cronjob because it is annoying. It is only happening on one of my

Re: save-entropy cronjob Added: not found every 10 minutes

2004-07-19 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 19), Duane Winner said: Does anybody know what is going on with the cronjob /usr/libexec/save-entropy that by default is scheduled to run every 10 minutes? I'm getting tons of log mail because of this, but I don't want to just comment out the cronjob because

Re: save-entropy cronjob Added: not found every 10 minutes

2004-07-19 Thread Duane Winner
Thanks! Using your technique, I discovered that I stupidly forgot to put a '#' before one of my comments in /etc/rc.conf. Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jul 19), Duane Winner said: Does anybody know what is going on with the cronjob /usr/libexec/save-entropy that by default is scheduled