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find / -perm -4000 -o -perm -2000 > suid.. help with bash script to run nightly.?

help me with this this problem. so far i have "find / -perm -4000 -o -perm -2000 | xargs ls -l > suild.list" argument that i want to write as a bash script. I would like to write this as a bash script and be be able to run this nightly everyday.…
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Crontab not running @reboot

I have ubuntu server with crontab that is supposed to run mkdocs in tmux at reboot. Worth noting is that I configure crontab by going into crontab -e. Line is: @reboot /usr/bin/tmux new-session -d -s "MKDOCS" "cd /root/mkdocs && mkdocs serve -a…
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Certwatch Falsely Reporting an Expired Cert

This is a bit of a weird one. Every morning I get an email telling me one of my certificates is expired. ################# SSL Certificate Warning ################ Certificate for hostname '*.floodtrack.com', in file (or by nickname): …
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Cron Job for deleting daily apache Log

on my Ubuntu cloud server often happens when i visit apache log fiiles to be 5-10 GB in a day or two, i'm a user of vestaCP and destination of log files is: var/log/apache/domains/domain.error.log and file domain.log Also I have the same problem,…
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Crontab entry executing every hour

What does this line mean in /etc/crontab file ? 59 * * * * root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly
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Which update scheme is better for an unattended Ubuntu server

I'm in a situation where I have to deploy an ubuntu server for a Client (they do not have a Sysadmin), and it will serve as an HTTP API backend for an app. The catch is that after the deployment they no longer allow me to have remote SSH access to…
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cron.daily not running at the time it should?

My /etc/cron.daily scripts seem to be executing far later from what I understand they should. I am in Ubuntu and anacron is installed. If I do a sudo cat /var/log/syslog | grep cron I get something like: Aug 23 01:17:01 mymachine CRON[25171]:…
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What is wrong with this cron tab entry?

0,35 * * * * /home/scripts/backup.sh "daily backup" what is wrong with my cron tab line it isn't working I didn't try @daily yet but wanted to make sure it is running so am running it at 0 minutes on the hour and at 35 mintues every hour. I don't…
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Calling a specific URL daily

I need that every night at 2:00 am a call to a specific URl is made. For this reason, I inserted in the cronotab services the following: crontab -e 0 2 * * * wget -q -0 - "http://MYWEBSITE" But it seems not working.. Where am I wrong?
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CLAMAV Issue after i removed it

Here is my issue: I removed clamav, spamassasin, and amavis and now I am getting this in my Citadel email box every day from some cron job that is searching for Clamav. How do I amend the Cron job to stop checking for Clamav? Where is the cron job…
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Confused by email messages from cron and logwatch

Actually I found these reports in server's mail queue. It repeats everyday i find 3 mails... 2 from Cron Daemon [cpbackup] Backups are not scheduled to run today (This can be adjusted in WHM => Backup => Configure Backup) // i dunno why i see this…
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Dillon's dcron SYNC and ASYNC

The specific question for cron using Dillon's minimalist cron version is: How to create a cron job that runs every first Friday of the month, in ASYNC mode? Dillon's cron attempts to mix synchronous cron (the traditional) and asynchronous (anacron…
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Error when I execute crontab in linux

I'm executing a crontab where it call the script of python and the crontab are executing very well, but when I execute the crontab I need its will create other file in another directory, but that doesn't do what I want. But when execute manually…
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/etc/cron.daily/ what this command is doing?

Could you help to explain what this command is doing? printf '#!/bin/sh\n\find /opt/traccar/logs -mtime +5 -type f -delete\n' > /etc/cron.daily/traccar-clear-logs && chmod +x /etc/cron.daily/traccar-clear-logs
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php core script not getting called from Crontab

I am using core PHP and written a simple script that needs to be called automatically. For testing purpose I have just written a print statement as below, $host = 'localhost'; $user = 'admin'; $pass = 'password'; $db = 'TestDB'; print ($user); When…
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