[Labs-l] IMPORTANT: cron update

Thu May 1 09:37:46 UTC 2014

I don't think so.

There is a number of cases where this is not relevant, I don't know
who added that into crontab, but I am pretty sure that nobody from
toolsadmin team is going to remove any line from it as long as it's
sane (for example some simple check that just submit some kind of
e-mail, tail some log file etc, doesn't need to be run as a job, since
the job itself is less resource expensive than submitting it to SGEN).

So I think you can ignore this in your case. The note should be reworded though.

On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Danmichaelo
<danmichaelo+wikipedia at gmail.com> wrote:
> Apologies accepted! But when crontab-ing now, I noted the comment:
>
> "Any command specified here will be modified to be invoked through jsub
> unless it is one of the two" [jsub or jstart]
>
> Does that mean I should move away from calling qsub directly? If so, there
> should be a note about that here:
>
> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Tools/Help#What_is_the_grid_engine.3F
>
>
> Dan Michael
>
>
>
> On 1 May 2014 02:31, Marc A. Pelletier <marc at uberbox.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hello all.
>>
>> Due to a (really) stupid mistake on my part, I have managed to
>> completely lose the crontab of any tool which had automatic changes
>> applied to it (the process which was supposed to make a backup before
>> any changes failed).  This affects approximately 50 tools.
>>
>> Please accept my most sincere apologies for the work and lost data this
>> might cause.
>>
>> That said, if your tool existed before the migration to the new
>> datacenter, you probably still have the backup dating from that time in
>> your tool's home under the name ~/...DATA.crontab
>>
>> On the other hand, most tools' crontabs /were/ correctly moved to the
>> new system.  There is a '/usr/local/bin/crontab' symlink now pointing to
>> xcrontab -- you should get that one by default unless you have changed
>> your default path.
>>
>> If you get a message along the lines of:
>>
>> You (user) are not allowed to use this program (/usr/bin/crontab)
>>
>> then you are accidentally hitting the wrong one; check your path or type:
>>
>> hash -r
>>
>> To force your shell to revisit it.
>>
>> Again, please accept my apologies for the disruption.
>>
>> -- Marc
>>
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