<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">crond is running and the backups succeed, it's just that they run every day instead of only on a Sunday.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I edited the file direct as root and killed and restarted crond after doing that. It seems esxi does not have a crontab command.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">syslog shows that it ran, but no clue as to why it ran every day instead of only on Sunday:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default">2016-05-30T01:00:01Z crond[1191986]: crond: USER root pid 1360004 cmd /sbin/sh /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/util/ghettoVCB-master/ghettoVCB.sh -f /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/util/ghettoVCB-master/vms_to_backup</div><div class="gmail_default">2016-05-31T01:00:01Z crond[1191986]: crond: USER root pid 1427626 cmd /sbin/sh /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/util/ghettoVCB-master/ghettoVCB.sh -f /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/util/ghettoVCB-master/vms_to_backup</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">I think Phil may be onto something with esxi not using 7=Sunday. I'll play around with that a bit.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">ed</div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px">_________________________________________ </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:11pt">Edward O. Holcroft</b><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px">IT Operations Manager</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:11pt">Madsen, Kneppers & Associates, Inc.</b><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px">Construction Consultants & Engineers </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px">11695 Johns Creek Parkway, Suite 250</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px">Johns Creek, GA 30097</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px">O</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px"> 770.446.9606 | </span><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px">F</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px"> 770.446.9612 | </span><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px">C</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px"> 770.630.0949 | <a href="mailto:eholcroft@mkainc.com" target="_blank">eholcroft@mkainc.com</a></span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><a href="http://www.mkainc.com" target="_blank">www.mkainc.com</a> </span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Lightner, Jeffrey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:JLightner@dsservices.com" target="_blank">JLightner@dsservices.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Have you verified the cron daemon (crond) is running?<br>
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Did you do the edit with crontab -e as the specific user (or crontab -e -u <user> as root for non-root user) or did you direct edit the crontab file for the specific user? If the latter you have to bounce crond for the change to be recognized.<br>
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Did you look at the cron log (/var/log/cron usually) to see if it gave any information?<br>
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Did you look at the user's mail to see if cron sent any email? It usually will if cron jobs are attempted but have non-zero exit.<br>
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From: <a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org">ale-bounces@ale.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org">ale-bounces@ale.org</a>] On Behalf Of Phil Turmel<br>
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Subject: Re: [ale] Crontab on ESXi<br>
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On 05/31/2016 08:22 AM, Edward Holcroft wrote:<br>
> All,<br>
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> I have a crontab entry on EXI v6:<br>
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> 0 1 * * 7 /sbin/sh<br>
> /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/util/ghettoVCB-master/ghettoVCB.sh -f<br>
> /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/util/ghettoVCB-master/vms_to_backup<br>
><br>
> I expect the command to run once a week on a Sunday, but it runs every<br>
> day. The syntax seems correct. Any ideas what may be going on here?<br>
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Is there any chance ESXi doesn't conform to 7 = Sunday? Have you tried<br>
"0 1 * * 0" ?<br>
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