<div dir="ltr">Just to clarify. Am I right that if 'crontab -l' returns empty list and there is no ~/...DATA.crontab in my home directory it means that my cron list has been lost completely?</div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr">Best regards,<br>Artem.<div>________________________<br></div><div>Dr. Artem Korzhimanov</div><div>Research Scientist</div><div>Institute of Applied Physics</div><div>of the Russian Academy of Sciences</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-05-01 13:37 GMT+04:00 Petr Bena <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:benapetr@gmail.com" target="_blank">benapetr@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I don't think so.<br>
<br>
There is a number of cases where this is not relevant, I don't know<br>
who added that into crontab, but I am pretty sure that nobody from<br>
toolsadmin team is going to remove any line from it as long as it's<br>
sane (for example some simple check that just submit some kind of<br>
e-mail, tail some log file etc, doesn't need to be run as a job, since<br>
the job itself is less resource expensive than submitting it to SGEN).<br>
<br>
So I think you can ignore this in your case. The note should be reworded though.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Danmichaelo<br>
<<a href="mailto:danmichaelo%2Bwikipedia@gmail.com">danmichaelo+wikipedia@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Apologies accepted! But when crontab-ing now, I noted the comment:<br>
><br>
> "Any command specified here will be modified to be invoked through jsub<br>
> unless it is one of the two" [jsub or jstart]<br>
><br>
> Does that mean I should move away from calling qsub directly? If so, there<br>
> should be a note about that here:<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Tools/Help#What_is_the_grid_engine.3F" target="_blank">https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Tools/Help#What_is_the_grid_engine.3F</a><br>
><br>
><br>
> Dan Michael<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> On 1 May 2014 02:31, Marc A. Pelletier <<a href="mailto:marc@uberbox.org">marc@uberbox.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Hello all.<br>
>><br>
>> Due to a (really) stupid mistake on my part, I have managed to<br>
>> completely lose the crontab of any tool which had automatic changes<br>
>> applied to it (the process which was supposed to make a backup before<br>
>> any changes failed). This affects approximately 50 tools.<br>
>><br>
>> Please accept my most sincere apologies for the work and lost data this<br>
>> might cause.<br>
>><br>
>> That said, if your tool existed before the migration to the new<br>
>> datacenter, you probably still have the backup dating from that time in<br>
>> your tool's home under the name ~/...DATA.crontab<br>
>><br>
>> On the other hand, most tools' crontabs /were/ correctly moved to the<br>
>> new system. There is a '/usr/local/bin/crontab' symlink now pointing to<br>
>> xcrontab -- you should get that one by default unless you have changed<br>
>> your default path.<br>
>><br>
>> If you get a message along the lines of:<br>
>><br>
>> You (user) are not allowed to use this program (/usr/bin/crontab)<br>
>><br>
>> then you are accidentally hitting the wrong one; check your path or type:<br>
>><br>
>> hash -r<br>
>><br>
>> To force your shell to revisit it.<br>
>><br>
>> Again, please accept my apologies for the disruption.<br>
>><br>
>> -- Marc<br>
>><br>
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