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[viking60]

Eh now I am confused. That cannot be the output of the command crontab -l !?

[dedanna1029]

You saw it for yourself - I copied/pasted the command itself directly from you.

[viking60]

copy and paste crontab -l into your terminal as your normal user - not as root. And lemme see!
What you posted above was the content of a file I would like to see your output inclusive the prompt where you tip the command.

[dedanna1029]

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.:[ dedanna@dedanna.rocks.net : 08:56:37 : ~ ]:.
:) crontab -l
bash: /usr/bin/crontab: Permission denied

It doesn't let you run that as regular user.

[viking60]

It should:

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.:[ thomas@viking60-server : 17:05:40 : ~ ]:.
:) crontab -l
no crontab for thomas

Do you have sudo working now?

Anyway do it again as root....

[dedanna1029]

Yes, sudo's working, but I don't like to use it. Okay, off for root again.

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[root@dedanna dedanna]# crontab -l
# root crontab
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE MANUALLY! USE crontab -e INSTEAD

# man 1 crontab for acceptable formats:
#    <minute> <hour> <day> <month> <dow> <tags and command>
#    <@freq> <tags and command>

# SYSTEM DAILY/WEEKLY/... FOLDERS
@hourly         ID=sys-hourly   /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.hourly
@daily          ID=sys-daily    /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.daily
@weekly         ID=sys-weekly   /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.weekly
@monthly        ID=sys-monthly  /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.monthly

bash: bash_prompt_cmd: command not found
[root@dedanna dedanna]#

Eh, it appears as well that the bash error has returned. Still can't figure which line it is I need to fix.

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[dedanna@dedanna ~]$ cat .bashrc

# Check for an interactive session
#[ -z "$PS1" ] && return

#alias ls='ls --color=auto'
#PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ '

bash_prompt_cmd() {
RTN=$?



smiley() {
    if [ $1 == 0 ] ; then
echo ":)"
    else
echo ":("
       fi
    }
smileyc() {
    if [ $1 == 0 ] ; then
echo $GREEN
else
echo $RED
       fi
    }
if [ $(tput colors) -gt 0 ] ; then
RED=$(tput setaf 1)
GREEN=$(tput setaf 2)
RST=$(tput op)
fi
smiley=$(smiley $RTN)
smileyc=$(smileyc $RTN)
        local CY="\[\e[1;31m\]" # Each is 12 chars long
        local BL="\[\e[1;34m\]"
        local WH="\[\e[1;37m\]"
        local BR="\[\e[0;33m\]"
        local RE="\[\e[1;31m\]"
        local PROMPT="${CY}$"
        [ $UID -eq "0" ] && PROMPT="${RE}#"

        # Add the first part of the prompt: username,host, and time
        local PROMPT_PWD=""
        local PS1_T1="$BL.:[ $CY`whoami`@`hostname` $BL: $CY\t $BL:$CY "
        local ps_len=$(( ${#PS1_T1} - 12 * 6 + 6 + 4 )) #Len adjust for colors, time and var
        local PS1_T2=" $BL]:.\n\[\$smileyc\]\$smiley\[$RST\] "
        local startpos=""

        PROMPT_PWD="${PWD/#$HOME/~}"
        local overflow_prefix="..."
        local pwdlen=${#PROMPT_PWD}
        local maxpwdlen=$(( COLUMNS - ps_len ))
        # Sometimes COLUMNS isn't initiliased, if it isn't, fall back on 80
        [ $maxpwdlen -lt 0 ] && maxpwdlen=$(( 80 - ps_len ))

        if [ $pwdlen -gt $maxpwdlen ] ; then
                startpos=$(( $pwdlen - maxpwdlen + ${#overflow_prefix} ))
                PROMPT_PWD="${overflow_prefix}${PROMPT_PWD:$startpos:$maxpwdlen}"
        fi
        export PS1="${PS1_T1}${PROMPT_PWD}${PS1_T2}"
smiley=$(smiley $RTN)
smileyc=$(smileyc $RTN)
        local CY="\[\e[1;31m\]" # Each is 12 chars long
        local BL="\[\e[1;34m\]"
        local WH="\[\e[1;37m\]"
        local BR="\[\e[0;33m\]"
        local RE="\[\e[1;31m\]"
        local PROMPT="${CY}$"
        [ $UID -eq "0" ] && PROMPT="${RE}#"

        # Add the first part of the prompt: username,host, and time
        local PROMPT_PWD=""
        local PS1_T1="$BL.:[ $CY`whoami`@`hostname` $BL: $CY\t $BL:$CY "
        local ps_len=$(( ${#PS1_T1} - 12 * 6 + 6 + 4 ))
   #Len adjust for colors, time and var
        local PS1_T2=" $BL]:.\n\[\$smileyc\]\$smiley\[$RST\] "
        local startpos=""

        PROMPT_PWD="${PWD/#$HOME/~}"
        local overflow_prefix="..."
        local pwdlen=${#PROMPT_PWD}
        local maxpwdlen=$(( COLUMNS - ps_len ))
        # Sometimes COLUMNS isn't initiliased, if it isn't, fall back on 80
        [ $maxpwdlen -lt 0 ] && maxpwdlen=$(( 80 - ps_len ))

        if [ $pwdlen -gt $maxpwdlen ] ; then
                startpos=$(( $pwdlen - maxpwdlen + ${#overflow_prefix} ))
                PROMPT_PWD="${overflow_prefix}${PROMPT_PWD:$startpos:$maxpwdlen}"
        fi
        export PS1="${PS1_T1}${PROMPT_PWD}${PS1_T2}"
}

[dedanna1029]

Okay, /root didn't have a .bashrc, so I gave it a plain vanilla one, and *I think* the error has disappeared for it now. Yep, it has.

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.:[ dedanna@dedanna.rocks.net : 10:06:41 : ~ ]:.
:) crontab -l
bash: /usr/bin/crontab: Permission denied
.:[ dedanna@dedanna.rocks.net : 10:06:46 : ~ ]:.
:( su
Password:
[root@dedanna dedanna]# crontab -l
# root crontab
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE MANUALLY! USE crontab -e INSTEAD

# man 1 crontab for acceptable formats:
#    <minute> <hour> <day> <month> <dow> <tags and command>
#    <@freq> <tags and command>

# SYSTEM DAILY/WEEKLY/... FOLDERS
@hourly         ID=sys-hourly   /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.hourly
@daily          ID=sys-daily    /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.daily
@weekly         ID=sys-weekly   /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.weekly
@monthly        ID=sys-monthly  /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.monthly

[root@dedanna dedanna]#

Just wish I knew what hosed it to begin with.

[viking60]

You are mixing up two things here. Lets do the cron thing first.
That looks like you have manually edited by pasting something totally wrong in there. Is that the script maybe that you wanted the crontab to run?
I am not aware that crontab can handle that at all. That is no cron job as far as I can tell.
I think you should delete the whole enchilada.
just do a :

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 sudo EDITOR=nano crontab -e

And remove it all and save it. Then we can build a normal crontab with whatever you wanted to do.

[dedanna1029]

I have not messed with crontab at all. I have no clue even how. That's the output it gave, that's all I know. All I want is for daily cron to run at 4:00 a.m. rather than 7:30 p.m.

This is what happens when I type in the command you gave:

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# root crontab
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE MANUALLY! USE crontab -e INSTEAD

# man 1 crontab for acceptable formats:
#    <minute> <hour> <day> <month> <dow> <tags and command>
#    <@freq> <tags and command>

# SYSTEM DAILY/WEEKLY/... FOLDERS
@hourly         ID=sys-hourly   /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.hourly
@daily          ID=sys-daily    /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.daily
@weekly         ID=sys-weekly   /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.weekly
@monthly        ID=sys-monthly  /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.monthly

That's what I've got. Delete all that?

Edit: Here's what's in each one of the folders the file currently points to:

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:) ls /etc/cron.hourly
adjtime
.:[ dedanna@dedanna.rocks.net : 10:20:43 : ~ ]:.
:) ls /etc/cron.daily
bashfr   logrotate  man-db  pkgfile  shadow  updatedb
.:[ dedanna@dedanna.rocks.net : 10:20:56 : ~ ]:.
:) ls /etc/cron.weekly
.:[ dedanna@dedanna.rocks.net : 10:21:04 : ~ ]:.
:) ls /etc/cron.monthly

I'm starting to think on second thought, that maybe I don't want to mess with this. Without knowing what crontab is currently doing for sure, I could mess it up more.

Thanks.

[viking60]

Ok I sure did not know you could do that with cron - so you might be right.

[dedanna1029]

Yeah, there would be a LOT to it.

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009 ... ontab.html

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009 ... es/at.html

I can be good, but I'm nowhere near that good.

[viking60]

Well that description seems to agree with me: You can call a file but you can not put it in crontab directly.
Edit but I see now that the @daily etc are valid entries.
http://crunchbang.org/archives/2007/10/ ... ntab-file/