Testing /etc/crontab
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Contents
Crontab contents
The commands listed in /etc/crontab are:
- Commands executed daily through anacron, stored in /etc/cron.daily
- Weekly commands in /etc/cron.weekly
- There are currently no monthly commands
- The Backupscript, which is executed daily, but is not in /etc/cron.daily
- A direct call to the reboot command, executed weekly
- Scripts used by the Fedora media management application, which is probably used by the Key to Nature project (see documentation here: http://biowikifarm.net/meta/Definition_specs_for_Fedora_Ingestion_Service)
Testing the cron scripts
/etc/crontab can be tested using the run-parts commad
To list the commands that would have been run daily:
run-parts --list /etc/cron.daily
To test (without executing them) the commands that would have been run daily:
run-parts --test /etc/cron.daily
To run the commands that would have been run daily, with verbose output:
run-parts -v /etc/cron.daily
Weekly and Monthly commands can be tested the same way.
Testing other scripts called in crontab
Backupscripts other commands not in /etc/cron.xxx have to be tested by hand. Please make sure that you are using the corresponding user account and have set any environment variables required.
Current status
- 21 November 2014
- Logrotate is not functioning correctly.
