Hi;
My cron file has vanished. crontab -l shows nothing, where is it? I'm connected to willow, is this related to the recent server issues?
Regards, emijrp
Hi ! You'd better use the 'cronie' command instead of the 'crontab' one… See https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Cronie for further information about it…
Regards, — Toto Azéro
Le 1 avr. 2012 à 12:17, emijrp a écrit :
Hi;
My cron file has vanished. crontab -l shows nothing, where is it? I'm connected to willow, is this related to the recent server issues?
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OK, but the cron file is missing. Has it been lost in a migration or whatever?
2012/4/1 Toto Azéro totoazero@yahoo.fr
Hi ! You'd better use the 'cronie' command instead of the 'crontab' one… See https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Cronie for further information about it…
Regards, — Toto Azéro
Le 1 avr. 2012 à 12:17, emijrp a écrit :
Hi;
My cron file has vanished. crontab -l shows nothing, where is it? I'm
connected to willow, is this related to the recent server issues?
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Mmm... I see a file called 'cront.nightshade' (or similar) in my home directory but I did't restore it, so I don't know if this file helps you.
Regards El 01/04/2012 07:31, "emijrp" emijrp@gmail.com escribió:
OK, but the cron file is missing. Has it been lost in a migration or whatever?
2012/4/1 Toto Azéro totoazero@yahoo.fr
Hi ! You'd better use the 'cronie' command instead of the 'crontab' one… See https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Cronie for further information about it…
Regards, — Toto Azéro
Le 1 avr. 2012 à 12:17, emijrp a écrit :
Hi;
My cron file has vanished. crontab -l shows nothing, where is it? I'm
connected to willow, is this related to the recent server issues?
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Hello, At Sunday 01 April 2012 16:14:37 DaB. wrote:
My cron file has vanished. crontab -l shows nothing, where is it? I'm connected to willow, is this related to the recent server issues?
there is no crontab of you on willow AFAIS. And no cron-tasks (either of crontab or cronie) were executed this year on willow AFAIS. May it be that your crontab was on nightshade?
Sincerely, DaB.
On 01/04/12 12:17, emijrp wrote:
Hi;
My cron file has vanished. crontab -l shows nothing, where is it? I'm connected to willow, is this related to the recent server issues?
Regards, emijrp
Were your cron stored in nightshade? In that case, it is gone. If you are just launching jobs in SGE, that should be done from submit.toolserver.org in cronie (and won't show in willow).
2012/4/1 Platonides platonides@gmail.com
On 01/04/12 12:17, emijrp wrote:
Hi;
My cron file has vanished. crontab -l shows nothing, where is it? I'm connected to willow, is this related to the recent server issues?
Regards, emijrp
Were your cron stored in nightshade? In that case, it is gone.
Yes, probably it was on nightshade. Why weren't they copied to the new server?
If you are just launching jobs in SGE, that should be done from submit.toolserver.org in cronie (and won't show in willow).
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On 1 April 2012 18:02, emijrp emijrp@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, probably it was on nightshade. Why weren't they copied to the new server?
Because Nightshade had hardware problems and was reinstalled. There has been some more discussion on the mailing list about this:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/toolserver-l/2012-February/004732.html http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/toolserver-l/2012-February/004733.html http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/toolserver-l/2012-February/004735.html http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/toolserver-l/2012-March/004766.html http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/toolserver-l/2012-March/004767.html http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/toolserver-l/2012-March/004854.html
Best, Merlijn
On 01/04/12 18:02, emijrp wrote:
Yes, probably it was on nightshade. Why weren't they copied to the new server?
Because hardware problems don't usually warn?
That said, I hope we could better manage crontabs in the future.
I take for granted that the debian installs will have only cronie as crontab, but I also wonder if they could be moved to the /home, so they are stored and backed up there with all the rest of the user data, instead of having one file per server at a different location. They could for instance live at $HOME/crontabs/crontab and $HOME/crontabs/jobs
Such crontabs wouldn't run when the /home is not available, but it doesn't seem a big issue, given that most scripts would need some kind of fs access.
Looking at cronie source, it seems that it would perfectly work if the files at /var/spool/cron contained symlinks instead of files and is indeed documented in crontab(5). Combined with its clustering support, such setup should work.
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