Aug 18, 2015 · If the job you want to run can be run with the same privileges as your user I recommend using a user crontab which you can edit by running EDITOR="gedit" crontab -e (which will use gedit to edit the crontab file) or simply crontab …

May 21, 2024 · Same problem here on several stations with Ubuntu 24.04.1 Randomly after entering the password, the screen goes black with an X, when pressing ctrl+alt+f4, I enter with the user, reboot and it works.

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Apr 16, 2015 · crontab -e lets you edit your user crontab without sudo. The user crontabs are in /var/spool/cron/crontabs which is a directory that cannot be accessed without superuser permission (but in such a way that once cron drops privileges it's still able to read it).

Feb 12, 2014 · I tried to set up a root cron job to run a Bash script as root, to run at minute 7,37, every hour, every day of month, every month. This script is located in /usr/bin and named tunlrupdate.sh. It u...

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The server may ordinarily take your computername from your systems DHCP request, make it computername.local and store that in its records, making it available in its associated DNS server simultaneously.

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Sometimes it is necessary for root to execute a command as a specific user of the system. For example, with borgbackup, it is common to have root check the warehouse using the borg user. if the task must be executed once a day, we will use the /etc/cron.daily folder, like that:

Like mentioned earlier, cron jobs get logged to /var/log/syslog. You can pipe the syslog to grep and filter out the CRON logs, like this