Re: [gentoo-user] Daily dumb question... chron.
Bob Sanders wrote:
Are thse system tasks supposed to be fired automatically by fcron?
Yes. In the ebuild it says -
einfo To activate /etc/cron.{hourly|daily|weekly|montly} please run:
einfo crontab /etc/crontab
I hadn't seen that message - but then again, when I installed fcron the
/etc/cron.* stuff wasn't especially important to me... so I might easily
have ignored it at the time. It's a pity this sort of essential
warning isn't available for all packages as some kind of Gentoo
knowledge base - I guess I could read the ebuild files - but it would be
far more convenient to have tips/tricks/gotchas available annotated with
each package - say on http://packages.gentoo.org/... Hmmm.
In any case, thanks - crontab /etc/crontab seems the perfect resolution.
Steve
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[gentoo-user] Daily dumb question... chron.
Because I need my Gentoo server to perform periodic tasks on my behalf I new I needed some implementation of cron - and after a brief investigation I settled on fcron as I liked the idea that I could give flexible scheduling in order to allow the OS to delay processing in the event of heavy system load. I've written a couple of my own administration tasks (to be run as my own non-root user) and these work fine. I've noticed the directories /etc/cron.daily; /etc/cron.hourly; /etc/cron.monthly etc. and therein a bunch of non-user-specific administration tasks... For example, in ./etc/cron.daily I've logrotate.cron and rulesdujour - but none of these appear to have run in the last month. Are thse system tasks supposed to be fired automatically by fcron? What would be the easiest way to get all my periodic system administration tasks defined in these directories to be fired automatically? Did I make a sensible choice with fcron? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Daily dumb question... chron.
Hi, On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:06:29 +0100 Steve [Gentoo] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed the directories /etc/cron.daily; /etc/cron.hourly; /etc/cron.monthly etc. and therein a bunch of non-user-specific administration tasks... For example, in ./etc/cron.daily I've logrotate.cron and rulesdujour - but none of these appear to have run in the last month. Are thse system tasks supposed to be fired automatically by fcron? What would be the easiest way to get all my periodic system administration tasks defined in these directories to be fired automatically? Did I make a sensible choice with fcron? Can't tell much about fcron (esp. if its config syntax is similar to my vixie-cron), but for me, vixie-cron installed a /etc/crontab that contains the following lines: 0 * * * * rootrm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly 1 3 * * * rootrm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily 15 4 * * 6 rootrm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.weekly 30 5 1 * * rootrm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.monthly */10 * * * * roottest -x /usr/sbin/run-crons /usr/sbin/run-crons this does the job. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Daily dumb question... chron.
Are thse system tasks supposed to be fired automatically by fcron? You missed the message that flew by when emerging fcron... Fcron includes the /etc/cron.* directories but does not install cron jobs for them automatically, and it does not support /etc/crontab (as other crons do). You need to manually add them to the root crontab. Easiest way would be to: 1. su - (or login as root). 2. crontab -l root root.crontab (to get any existing cron entries for root). 3. vi root.crontab and add the following: # Clean the lastrun directories... 0 * * * * rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly 1 3 * * * rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily 15 4 * * 6 rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.weekly 30 5 1 * * rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.monthly # Now do the command to determine what tasks need to be executed # Only generate emails on errors... !nolog(true) */10 * * * * /usr/bin/test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons /usr/sbin/run-crons 4. crontab root.crontab (to make the changes take effect) This will install the appropriate cron jobs to have the /etc/cron.* scripts run. Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Daily dumb question... chron.
# Now do the command to determine what tasks need to be executed # Only generate emails on errors... !nolog(true) Oops, this nolog bit comes from my crontab and is not normally put in. I added it because I hated getting emails for regular runs. If you choose to include it, add !reset to the line after the run-crons line of the text I sent. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Daily dumb question... chron.
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:06:29 +0100
Steve [Gentoo] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ne.
I've noticed the directories /etc/cron.daily; /etc/cron.hourly;
/etc/cron.monthly etc. and therein a bunch of non-user-specific
administration tasks... For example, in ./etc/cron.daily I've
logrotate.cron and rulesdujour - but none of these appear to have run in
the last month. Are thse system tasks supposed to be fired
automatically by fcron?
Yes. In the ebuild it says -
einfo To activate /etc/cron.{hourly|daily|weekly|montly} please run:
einfo crontab /etc/crontab
What would be the easiest way to get all my
periodic system administration tasks defined in these directories to be
fired automatically? Did I make a sensible choice with fcron?
I just add the tasks to s specific script in the appropriate account and insure
the
script is executable. It all works fine with fcron.
Bob
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