[App_rpt-users] ACID Crontab

[Stacy Olivas]

There are alternatives to cron that you can take a look at:

http://anacron.sourceforge.net/

http://fcron.free.fr/

https://expl.info/display/HCRON/Home

https://github.com/dshearer/jobber

http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/goaljobs/

-Stacy
KG7QIN


On 04/04/2016 06:30 PM, Steve Zingman wrote:
> You should be able to find the source to the version of cron and fix 
> it. According to the allstarlink.org web site, ACID is "Old/Obsolete 
> Distros (no longer supported)"
>
> Steve
>
> On 04/04/2016 09:14 PM, Steve Mahler wrote:
>> I'll answer my own question ...
>>
>> Cron is running as documented, but it is not a good thing. Where all
>> other time parameters are AND'ed, Day of Week and Day are OR'ed.  So
>> the elegant solution seems to be ...
>>
>> 06 00 * * 4         [ `date +\%d` -le 7 ] &&
>> /etc/asterisk/scripts/WXA/oobuild 46
>> 58 18 * * 4         [ `date +\%d` -le 7 ] &&
>> /etc/asterisk/scripts/WXA/ooclear 50
>>
>> Anyone think the source code should be changed?
>> ...STeve - KF5VH
>>
>> On 4/4/2016 12:57 PM, Steve Mahler wrote:
>>> I am having some problems with cron entries running when I am not
>>> expecting them to run.  This is an ACID distribution and the crontab
>>> is set from the root account (crontab -l | crontab -e | etc.).
>>>
>>> My crontab file looks like (with the questionable lines commented
>>> out).  The starting comments were taken from a search for CENTOS 5
>>> crontab man page.  Just what am I missing??
>>>
>>> #
>>> # Fields - KF5VH
>>> #
>>> # minute - any integer from 0 to 59
>>> # hour - any integer from 0 to 23
>>> # day - any integer from 1 to 31 (must be a valid day if a month is
>>> specified)
>>> # month - any integer from 1 to 12 (or the short name of the month
>>> such as jan or feb)
>>> # dayofweek - any integer from 0 to 7, where 0 or 7 represents Sunday
>>> (or  3 letter name like Mon)
>>> # command - the command to execute
>>> #
>>> */5 * * * *         /etc/asterisk/scripts/wxzip/Alert0
>>> 10,25,40,55 * * * * /etc/asterisk/SANITYBOOT/sanityboot
>>> 03 02 * * *         /sbin/ntpdate pool.ntp.org >>
>>> /etc/asterisk/LOG/ntptimelog
>>> # 07 00 * * 1         /etc/asterisk/scripts/WXA/oobuild 44
>>> # 58 23 * * 1         /etc/asterisk/scripts/WXA/ooclear 50
>>> # 07 00 * * 2         /etc/asterisk/scripts/WXA/oobuild 43
>>> # 58 18 * * 2         /etc/asterisk/scripts/WXA/ooclear 50
>>> # 06 00 1-7 * 4       /etc/asterisk/scripts/WXA/oobuild 46
>>> # 58 18 1-7 * 4       /etc/asterisk/scripts/WXA/ooclear 50
>>>
>>> The cron log shows ...
>>>
>>> [root at KF5VH-AS1 log]# grep /oo cron
>>> cron.1:Apr  3 00:06:01 KF5VH-AS1 crond[7629]: (root) CMD
>>> (/etc/asterisk/scripts/WXA/oobuild 46)
>>> cron:Apr  3 18:58:01 KF5VH-AS1 crond[7196]: (root) CMD
>>> (/etc/asterisk/scripts/WXA/ooclear 50)
>>> cron:Apr  4 00:06:01 KF5VH-AS1 crond[30169]: (root) CMD
>>> (/etc/asterisk/scripts/WXA/oobuild 46)
>>> cron:Apr  4 00:07:01 KF5VH-AS1 crond[30264]: (root) CMD
>>> (/etc/asterisk/scripts/WXA/oobuild 44)
>>>
>>> The first two lines should run on Monday.  The second two lines
>>> should run on Tuesday.
>>> The last two lines should run on the first Thursday of each month.
>>>
>>> ...STeve - KF5VH
>>>
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