[BlueOnyx:10744] Re: Moving raqbackup.sh to weekly

[Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet]

Thanks Dudi.

Dudi Goldenberg wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
>> This line was also added into crontab:
>> 01 01 * * sat root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
> 
> cron.weekly should have been present in /etc/crontab by
> default, there should be no reason to add it.
> This is mine, it's an old BQ but still applies:
> 
> 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
> 02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
> 22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
> 42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
> 04,34 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.half-hourly
> 03,18,33,48 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.quarter-hourly
> 05 0,6,12,18 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.quarter-daily

Well this may be a bit different.  This is the contents of /etc/crontab 
from 5108R:

=================================================
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
TMPDIR=/home/.tmp
HOME=/

# For details see man 4 crontabs

# Example of job definition:
# .---------------- minute (0 - 59)
# |  .------------- hour (0 - 23)
# |  |  .---------- day of month (1 - 31)
# |  |  |  .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ...
# |  |  |  |  .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR 
sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat
# |  |  |  |  |
# *  *  *  *  * user-name command to be executed

01 2 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
04,34 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.half-hourly
03,18,33,48 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.quarter-hourly
05 0,6,12,18 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.quarter-daily
=================================================

As you see, nothing referencing weekly.   That is why we added this line 
to the end:
01 01 * * 7 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly

> Besides that, moving the script out of cron.daily into cron.weekly plus a crond restart should have done the trick.

OK... well, it didn't.  On 5 boxes.  There was a root crontab that ran a 
script at reboot.  I pulled that out and restarted crond.  We'll see if 
that does it.

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