[Labs-l] IMPORTANT: cron update

[Danmichaelo]

Apologies accepted! But when crontab-ing now, I noted the comment:

"Any command specified here will be modified to be invoked through jsub
unless it is one of the two" [jsub or jstart]

Does that mean I should move away from calling qsub directly? If so, there
should be a note about that here:

https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Tools/Help#What_is_the_grid_engine.3F


Dan Michael


On 1 May 2014 02:31, Marc A. Pelletier <marc at uberbox.org> wrote:
>
> Hello all.
>
> Due to a (really) stupid mistake on my part, I have managed to
> completely lose the crontab of any tool which had automatic changes
> applied to it (the process which was supposed to make a backup before
> any changes failed).  This affects approximately 50 tools.
>
> Please accept my most sincere apologies for the work and lost data this
> might cause.
>
> That said, if your tool existed before the migration to the new
> datacenter, you probably still have the backup dating from that time in
> your tool's home under the name ~/...DATA.crontab
>
> On the other hand, most tools' crontabs /were/ correctly moved to the
> new system.  There is a '/usr/local/bin/crontab' symlink now pointing to
> xcrontab -- you should get that one by default unless you have changed
> your default path.
>
> If you get a message along the lines of:
>
> You (user) are not allowed to use this program (/usr/bin/crontab)
>
> then you are accidentally hitting the wrong one; check your path or type:
>
> hash -r
>
> To force your shell to revisit it.
>
> Again, please accept my apologies for the disruption.
>
> -- Marc
>
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