Questions tagged [incrontab]
incrontab is a command from the incron project (inotify cron, for cron based on inotify events) used to manage the crontab for incron
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rsync error unexplained error (code 255) at io.c
I was using a script to perform rsync in sudo crontab. The script does a 2-way rsync (from serverA to serverB and reverse). After I reboot both the server machines, the rsync is not working in sudo ...
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How can I get incron to run a task when a file is overwritten?
I have data extract that gets updated by another server. I want to run a script whenever that file is updated.
My incron task looks similar to:
/path/to/file IN_MODIFY php -f /path/to/script.php -- ...
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How can I create cron jobs in specific files on Linux Centos
I want to have a separate folders for cron jobs like:
/mydata/cronjobs
Now in that folder I want to have files like backup_server which will have the content like:
30 3 * * 1-5 /home/user/scripts/...
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Setting up inotify (incron) to monitor several directories using asterisk
I am trying to create an entry in /etc/incron.d/ that'd monitor all changes done under the following directories:
/var/www/virtualhosts/dev.anuary.com/*/*/public/css
Now, I assume this should be as ...
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incrontab watching files uploaded through vsftpd
I have a process where users ftp particular files to /home/ftp/file1.txt & /home/ftp/file2.txt any given time of the day. I setup incrontab with the following:
/home/ftp/file1.txt IN_CLOSE_WRITE ...
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ways to automatically fix line endings in shell scripts or files who break with ^M
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We regularly break our files lines endings and things stop working without us noticing.
Bash complains about "invalid option" or ": command not found" as described here: http://...
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Using puppet to manage incrontab
Puppet has the cron resource for managing the crontab, but is there a similar way of managing incrontab? I can find no writings anywhere regarding this, and to be fair, I'm extremely new to puppet (...
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What resources is incrond using? What can make it stop?
Incrontab is set up to monitor approx. 10 directories. The only thing it does is that it starts a Bash script when the new file is received inside one of these directories. Approximately, one file is ...
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incrond Error - access denied on /home/*/abc/ events will be discarded silently
I am getting following error on Ubuntu in the logs.
incrond Error - access denied on /home/*/abc/ events will be discarded
silently
I am trying to monitor /home/*/abc/ can be anything.
Any ...
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Incron executes only once
I have an incron configured , in the incrontab. The event gets executed only once after the reload and incron disables the watch after that and the event does not get triggered by incrontab table ...
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use incrontab to run a cron job when anything under a directory is modified using *
how can I tell incrontab to run this command when there has been any modification done under the /web directory?
/web IN_CREATE,IN_DELETE,IN_MODIFY /bin/echo "this is a test..."
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Cron - Does not execute command every 10 mins
I don't understand why cron is not really executing the command every 10 minutes.
in crontab -e I have added:
*/10 * * * * /var/www/myproject/recording/batch.pl
I could see in the cron log it is ...
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cron takes UTC time instead of local time
I've a script set in cronjob to run at 00 hours but it runs 5 hours earlier ie at 7PM local of earlier day. I mean it was supposed to run at local 00 hours of local time but it ran at 00 hours of UTC/...
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Cronjob starts multiple processes
Cronjob creates multiple processes for the same script.
One using
/usr/bin/php /path/to/php/script
And other using
/bin/sh -c /usr/bin/php /path/to/php/script
These are 2 separate processes....
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incrontab is not recognizing www-data writes
I have a Linux server with incrontab.
Here is my incrontab
/home/pi/upload IN_MODIFY /bin/sh /home/pi/autoprint $@/$#
If I am a root user, i tried creating a new pdf file inside the 'upload' folder, ...
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Incrontab does not execute command
I have copied this question over here from unix.StackOverflow
When I use incrontab out of the box, I mean no changes,
I get no result, as if the cmd was not executed.
my incron line is :
/crrae ...
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crontab emails me that /bin/bash/ mail or /bin/bash mailx is not found
Update: cron string is now correct in structure.
I have the mailto:[email protected],[email protected] option configured in my crontab
I have this crontask scheduled right now:
*/5 * * * * root /bin/...
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Trigger a command when two files have arrived in different directories in Centos 7
I need to launch a command when two files from different sources are present. Every file could arrive in different time, but I want to trigger the command when both were received. I have tried to do ...
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Cron Job Issue - Centos 7 ( Centos Webpanel) [duplicate]
The following cronjob don´t work in my server and I don´t understand the reason
Cron:
`curl https://app.codexbot.co/cron_job/background_scanning_update_subscriber_info/1-NmZTjQk1575844678nNCBzwb >...
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redirect website while making backup
I use incron to create backups for a website, and I like to redirect all requests to an other site when/while my scripts are running.
What I have done so far...
incron runs some scripts every time I ...
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Why am I seeing much more cron jobs in webmin than in `crontab -e`?
I am just starting to learn cron jobs. Basically I am going to use webmin to manage my cron jobs, I am also reading some basic information about cron jobs.
So far I've learned that /etc/crontab ...
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Running python script in incrontab in Debian
I have a user, dropbox, that runs the Dropbox daemon, I want to monitor the directories in the Dropbox directory for new files and run a python script when they appear.
I have the python script that ...
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php core script not getting called from Crontab
I am using core PHP and written a simple script that needs to be called automatically. For testing purpose I have just written a print statement as below,
$host = 'localhost';
$user = 'admin';
$pass = ...
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crond service running after removing the entry in crontab
I removed the entries in crontab for root and still, I can see the scripts running tail -f /var/log/cron.
How can I remove those entries.
Output of cron log:
CROND[2736]: (root) CMD (/home/centos/...
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What's the difference between /var/spool/cron and /var/spool/cron/crontabs?
This went unmentoned anywhere else I could find, not even in the man page of crontab. what's the difference between them?
some people say they don't have /var/spool/cron/crontabs, but one can easily ...
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