crontab

  1. C

    SOLVED Crontab: errors in crontab file, can't install

    Hi there, After last night's shenanigans with VNET failing, I continued on with setting up my Nextcloud server. All was working fine, created an ncadmin account and connected it to my database, but now I've ran into an error with Cron(tab). Upon attempting to configure cron for the www user...
  2. nojohnny101

    crontab in iocage jails

    I have a script I want to run with a cron trigger from within a created icoage jail. When I execute "crontab -e" it open up a vi editors but it doesn't seem to let me modify it nor does it present the expected controls that vi normally displays. It seems as though it is almost in read-only...
  3. S

    crontab entries deleted (with no backup) after 11.1-U4 upgrade

    Hi, In the past I had the (bad ?) habit to use "crontab -e" and add new crontab lines to perform rsync jobs with success/fail mail notifications. Recently we upgraded to 11.1-U4 and we realized the crontab was replaced and our previous crontab version has not been saved in the system snapshot...
  4. C

    Shell Script in Jail: TAR doesn't quit

    I am having an issue backing up our moodle server. This is with FreeNAS11. For some reason it seems like the TAR never stops despite it finishing and creating an actual file. Or, for whatever reason, the Hard Drive is continually accessed at a rate of 20 to 30 MBs until I reset the jail with...
  5. D

    notification on cron job completions

    Hi guys I have this crontab that rsycnc one dataset to another box, running every night. I need to know if they are completing successfully or not,, so far I enabled syslog on freenas, on "debug" level, but I still dont see any indication on syslog that the crontab fails or not. The command Im...
  6. J

    SOLVED Cron Job script will not run

    Hi, I have a script that is designed to pull a couple of spreadsheets via a curl request. I've tested the script multiple times and works perfectly within the shell, however when I try to set it up as a cron job, not only does the script not run at the specified time, it doesn't run at all even...
  7. ZodiacUHD

    How to crontab

    Hello guys, i really looked the whole forum and google, maybe i'm just too dumb and if that's the case, i apologize. I wanted to add crontabs, specifically as shown in this guide: https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/how-to-nextcloud-10-w-apache-php-and-mariadb.46111/ Let's take the...
  8. M

    How does one setup Crontab for a specific user?

    Hi there, So I'm currently following a guide from Joshua Parker Ruehling detailing how to setup a Owncloud server (Guide here). One of the steps near the end of the guide instructs the user to enter in the command: crontab -u www -e I understand that this is for setting up a crontab for the...
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