Crontab run script

Hi,

I have a cron task (backup script) that I want to execute every monday, except the first monday of the month.

this is the crontab snippit:

Code: 05 09 1-7  * mon root        /backup/backup_xcube -f 01 09 8-31 * mon root        /backup/backup_xcube -i

But the script backup_xcube -i get executed every day! The backup_xcube -f did

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 crontab -e and input my new cron task, nothing happens. I suspect it's the crontab -r command I executed earlier.

Can anyone help, please?

I want to do a complete server backup.

I already have my backup script copying all of the html/php files for the web app, and the mysql databases, placing them into a .tar.gz file.

How can I add the crontab files to that backup?

Whenever I save the crontab, it goes to /tmp folder.. and when I check that folder immediately afterwards, it is empty.

hi all i have a problem with crontab in fedora 17 a few months ago i have configure the crontab with several lines to backup some files, databases etc etc now i want to edit the crontab but is empty crontab -e cronta -l all empty but the strange is that the backup is still runing every days

in the folder /var/spool/cron i have the user file with 0 bytes

where is my file?

I have a Script that is supposed to be execute by the crontab. How can I verify this at this moment if the task was programmed to be executed several hours ago?

I have a problem with executing crontab jobs. I guess I have everything configured properly but when i put:*/2 * * * * /var/www/site/executescript.sh in crontab -e My script is not being executed at all..

I have the following bash script:

#!/bin/bash mysqldump -u ******** -p******** --all-databases | gzip > /home/srvlinux01/MySQLBackups/database_$(date +\%Y-\%m-\%d).sql.gz

which is located in /home/srvlinux01/MySQLBackups/ as backup.sh with the following permissions

-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 134 feb 27 12:48 backup.sh

I've set up a cronjob on sudo crontab -e to run it every d

If you want to schedule to run a command or script periodically, crontab will be a very useful tool. To add a command or a script to the crontab schedule, the command you need to use is: sudo crontab -e

UPDATE: The previous version of the post was the deleted, because the problem was not clear.

Original problem: Ruby scripts executed with crontab have problems with unicode strings.

Solution

When Ruby scripts are run by crontab it ignores # encoding: utf-8 directive.

To fix it you need add the -Ku flag to crontab like this.

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