[SOLVED] Crontab entry ignored

I'm running cronie. My root crontab has an entry to run tarsnap every night, which is ignored.
The tarsnap line works when run in a terminal and the other entries work as well.
I tested it by altering the time to make it run immediately but nothing happens - no reported errors as far as I can see.
Here is my root crontab:
# backup /etc nightly
30 3 * * * rsync -a /etc/ /databackup/etc
# Correct clock each morning
00 5 * * * rdate -ncv uk.pool.ntp.org ; hwclock --hctosys
# update mlocate database each morning
00 4 * * * updatedb --prunepaths '/tmp /proc /mnt /var/tmp /databackup'
# tarsnap backup
00 3 * * * /usr/bin/tarsnap --exclude /home/ac/.mozilla --exclude /home/ac/.cache -c -f arcadiabackup-`date +%y%m%d` /home/ac
MAILTO=me@mydomain
Last edited by acampbell (2014-06-24 14:16:17)

WorMzy wrote:
Are you sure that cronie is running?
# systemctl status cronie.service
Yes.
Also, please use code tags.
Don't know what you mean by this.
Anyway, I found a work-around: I made a bash script in /root and that runs the command without problems.
Last edited by acampbell (2014-06-24 14:18:24)

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default "dmix"
Last edited by kokoko3k (2014-09-05 07:00:59)

These are environment variables, that are already in place:
Alsa wiki wrote:Variable name # Definition
ALSA_CARD # pcm.default pcm.hw pcm.plughw ctl.sysdefault ctl.hw rawmidi.default rawmidi.hw hwdep.hw
ALSA_CTL_CARD # ctl.sysdefault ctl.hw
ALSA_HWDEP_CARD # hwdep.default hwdep.hw
ALSA_HWDEP_DEVICE # hwdep.default hwdep.hw
ALSA_PCM_CARD # pcm.default pcm.hw pcm.plughw
ALSA_PCM_DEVICE # pcm.hw pcm.plughw
ALSA_RAWMIDI_CARD # rawmidi.default rawmidi.hw
ALSA_RAWMIDI_DEVICE # rawmidi.default rawmidi.hw
That configuration file butchers the default setup. There is nothing wrong with that if you know how to get multiple sound sources and capture working again. If you do not, use something less restrictive for default value like 'dmix:CARD' or preferably an asym pcm or the [whole] original pcm.default as slave.
Edit: I see you changed it to dmix, good move. Changed format of the quote.
Last edited by emeres (2014-09-04 12:32:17)

[SOLVED] Grub Entry to boot via UUID

I'm trying to get my system booting by UUID but I am having issues with the grub entry as it won't boot. The following is the non uuid one that works:
# (2) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux sda5
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sda5 ro
initrd /boot/initramfs-linux.img
And below are the two that I have tried for uuid:
title Arch Linux by UUID (sda5)
uuid 857136db-0356-46bd-9fff-0126b575218b
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=857136db-0356-46bd-9fff-0126b575218b
initrd /boot/initramfs-linux.img
and
title Arch Linux by UUID (sda5)
uuid 857136db-0356-46bd-9fff-0126b575218b
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/857136db-0356-46bd-9fff-0126b575218b
initrd /boot/initramfs-linux.img
Can someone point out which bit is wrong?
Thanks
Last edited by morphjk (2011-10-11 04:08:53)

Try:
title Arch Linux by UUID (sda5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/857136db-0356-46bd-9fff-0126b575218b
initrd /boot/initramfs-linux.img
You may need the root (hd0,4) line as well. I think that is required to tell Grub where to find it's intermediate files. It would go in front of the kernel line.
Edit: I assume, of course, that your UUID is correct You might check that.
Last edited by ewaller (2011-10-11 03:16:48)

[SOLVED]Two entries for the same partiotion in Nautilus

Hi, I'm trying to auto-mount two (recently converted from NTFS to) EXT4 partitions using /etc/fstab, everything works fine but I now have 4 icons in Nautilus' Device section.
/etc/fstab:
#/dev/sda7:
UUID=3a3baae3-b81e-485b-9994-9ea14c31f914 /media/VMs ext4 defaults,users,exec,relatime 0 2
#/dev/sda8:
UUID=00b28db3-bf6f-44ad-8674-572e2302024a /media/Games ext4 defaults,users,exec,relatime 0 2
Screenshot:
If I comment out an entry in /etc/fstab and save, the icon disappears immediately.
EDIT: Never mind, I removed ',users' and everything is fine now, sorry
Last edited by rAX (2011-08-19 20:42:31)

Try this:
1) Highlight all tracks you want in the same album.
2) Right-Click, Get-Info.
3) Edit the Album name - This will populate the same ALbum name across all selected tracks.
You may or may not want iTunes organizing your music. If 'yes' then the physical song files will be re-arranged on your PC's folder structure.
Best of Luck

[SOLVED] Expiration time ignored in libnotify

Greetings everyone.
I'm using LXDE on Arch and wanted to do some custom notifications. I first installed notification-daemon, visited the Arch Wiki on the subject then tried this in a bash script:
#! /bin/bash
notify-send "New Mail" "From: $1\nSubject: $2" -t 60000
That popped up the notification just fine, but the expire-time parameter (-t 60000) was completely ignored as the notification disappeared after 5 seconds. Thinking it was just a notify-send problem, I decided to compile the example program (with the addition of notify_notification_set_timeout) in C:
#include <libnotify/notify.h>
void main () {
notify_init ("Hello world!");
NotifyNotification * Hello = notify_notification_new ("Hello world", "This is an example notification.", "dialog-information");
notify_notification_set_timeout(Hello, NOTIFY_EXPIRES_NEVER);
notify_notification_show (Hello, NULL);
notify_uninit ();
This worked, however the notification bubble is still disappearing after five seconds. Just for good measure, I even substituted NOTIFY_EXPIRES_NEVER with 60000 and this also was ignored.
I can't seem to find anything on the forums by searching (or through my favorite search engine) about timeout problems. Can anyone shed some light on this?
Thanks!
Last edited by willbprog127 (2011-12-01 23:32:42)

falconindy wrote:This is dependent on the sink that handles notifications, not libnotify itself.
Thanks for that. What can I do, then, to change this behavior? How can I identify what the sink is?

[SOLVED]Crontab fails to execute script

Good morning.
I have tried to setup crontab to give my ati card a different clockspeed depending on the time of day. I can't get it to work properly. This is what I have done.
I have 3 scripts in my ~/bin folder for 3 different clocks. This is one example, I call this upclock.sh.
#!/bin/bash
export DISPLAY=:0
/usr/bin/aticonfig --odsc 895,300
If I execute it from the commandline, as a normal user, it works as expected and the clock is changed. This goes for all 3 scripts.
I add these to roots crontab like this:
15 23 * * * `DISPLAY=:0 /home/johan/bin/downclock.sh`
0 3 * * * `DISPLAY=:0 /home/johan/bin/midclock.sh`
0 7 * * * `DISPLAY=:0 /home/johan/bin/upclock.sh`
But, I get the following error mail when the times specified comes:
No protocol specified
/bin/sh: ERROR: command not found
Anyone got a hint on what to do to make it work? I have tried to remove the "DISPLAY=:0", with the same result.
Last edited by kveras (2011-06-28 12:40:14)

fukawi2 wrote:
15 23 * * * `DISPLAY=:0 /home/johan/bin/downclock.sh`
0 3 * * * `DISPLAY=:0 /home/johan/bin/midclock.sh`
0 7 * * * `DISPLAY=:0 /home/johan/bin/upclock.sh`
You don't want to use backticks around your commands. Start by removing them.
Oh, I picked those up from a similar crontab on the gentoo forums, don't know why. I removed them and I now get another message.
No protocol specified
ERROR - X needs to be running to perform ATI Overdrive(TM) commands
However, X is running, initiated by SLIM as normal user "johan".
I tried using the user johan's crontab instead:
15 23 * * * DISPLAY=:0 /home/johan/bin/downclock.sh
0 3 * * * DISPLAY=:0 /home/johan/bin/midclock.sh
0 7 * * * DISPLAY=:0 /home/johan/bin/upclock.sh
This works just fine!
Thank you for pointing me in the right direction.

[SOLVED] Crontab entry ignored

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