[Labs-l] IMPORTANT: cron update

Thu May 1 11:06:02 UTC 2014

Just to clarify. Am I right that if 'crontab -l' returns empty list and
there is no ~/...DATA.crontab in my home directory it means that my cron
list has been lost completely?

Best regards,
Artem.
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Dr. Artem Korzhimanov
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Institute of Applied Physics
of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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Email: korzhimanov.artem at gmail.com

2014-05-01 13:37 GMT+04:00 Petr Bena <benapetr at gmail.com>:

> 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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