Please also bear in mind that running the script from the /backup directory itself - with ./day1.sh - may yeild different results than running it from another working directory with /backup/day1.sh
You may want to adjust your script to cd to whatever working directory you want the script to use, as when running as a cronjob it won't be moving into that directory before executing the script. I hope that made sense, it has been a long day! On 5 October 2010 15:34, Martin Elliott <sli...@slipnet.org.uk> wrote: > The output of 'the ps ax | grep crond' is just showing you the grep command > running, and not the actual cron daemon. I'm sure I've seen some systems > where cron is not running as a daemon, but I may be wrong, and this may have > been a very long time ago... But if you're getting emails about cron, it > must be processing your cronjobs. > > Your cronjob needs to contain the full path to the script - at the moment > it looks like this has > /backup.day1.sh - which I think may need to be /backup/day1.sh based on > other comments you've > made. > > Yes you need to change the permissions. I presume these jobs are running > under root's crontab, so (as root) you could chmod 700 /backup/day*.sh to > change them all to read/write/execute for root, and with no permission for > users in root's group, or other users of the system. > > VNC won't be making any difference at least :-) > > On 5 October 2010 15:13, Tim <xendis...@gmx.com> wrote: > >> On Tuesday 05 October 2010 19:15:06 Stuart Sears wrote: >> > On 05/10/10 18:49, John Cooper wrote: >> > > On 05/10/10 18:25, Vic wrote: >> > >> > [snip excellent advice] >> > >> > >>> How do I get cron to run them and where do I find any logs files >> that >> > >>> may >> > >>> point to what is going wrong? >> > >> > show us the output of >> > crontab -l >> > >> > as the user who owns these scripts? >> > plus >> > >> > ls -l /path/to/scripts >> > >> > >> Check root's email. cron can mail anyone you tell it to, but if you >> > >> haven't specified someone (and I doubt that you have), root tends to >> get >> > >> the reports. >> > >> > well, only if the jobs are in root's crontab. >> > ...which is just plain wrong - that's what /etc/cron.d is for (okay, >> > that's a matter of opinion and a little off-track for this) >> > >> > [...snip other excellent advice...] >> > >> > I'm not sure exactly what webmin does with cron. >> > >> > But setting it up manually could be achieved with a bit of advice (and >> > it's a good learning experience too) >> > >> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CronHowto >> > >> > (while I don't agree with all of it, it's mostly pretty good) >> > >> > Regards, >> > >> > Stuart >> >> OK in no particular order I tried the commands suggested with the >> following >> results >> >> ps ax | grep crond >> 4010 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep --color=auto crond (crond was written in >> red typeface) >> >> So that tell me crond is running >> >> crontab -l >> >> 0 0 * * 1 /backup.day1.sh # Day 1 backup >> (the same was repeated for each of the other 4 scripts) >> >> This tell me that at midnight on days 1 to 5 the script will run, yes? >> >> ls -l /backup >> -rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 357 2010-10-05 20:43 day1 >> (the same was repeated for each of the other 4 scripts) >> >> This tell that root owns the folder and each of the 5 scripts there in, I >> think >> I may need to change some of the permission so only root can run and >> write? >> >> In regards to webmin, it just make it easy for me to administrate the >> control of >> the server as opposed to cli >> >> I looked in mail and yes there were mails regarding cron there. Basicly it >> is >> saying /backups/day1 file not found So the problem is how do I tell it to >> chnage to the backup folder and then run the script? >> >> I should point out (if it makes any difference) that I am access the >> server via >> vnc >> >> Tim >> >> >> >> -- >> Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk >> Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire >> LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk >> -------------------------------------------------------------- >> > >
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