[ale] Crontab on ESXi

[Edward Holcroft]

crond is running and the backups succeed, it's just that they run every day
instead of only on a Sunday.

I edited the file direct as root and killed and restarted crond after doing
that. It seems esxi does not have a crontab command.

syslog shows that it ran, but no clue as to why it ran every day instead of
only on Sunday:

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
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

I think Phil may be onto something with esxi not using 7=Sunday. I'll play
around with that a bit.

ed






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*Edward O. Holcroft*
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On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Lightner, Jeffrey <JLightner at dsservices.com
> wrote:

> Have you verified the cron daemon (crond) is running?
>
> 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.
>
> Did you look at the cron log (/var/log/cron usually) to see if it gave any
> information?
>
> 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.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Phil
> Turmel
> Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2016 9:17 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Crontab on ESXi
>
> On 05/31/2016 08:22 AM, Edward Holcroft wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I have a crontab entry on EXI v6:
> >
> > 0    1    *   *   7   /sbin/sh
> > /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/util/ghettoVCB-master/ghettoVCB.sh -f
> > /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/util/ghettoVCB-master/vms_to_backup
> >
> > I expect the command to run once a week on a Sunday, but it runs every
> > day. The syntax seems correct. Any ideas what may be going on here?
>
> Is there any chance ESXi doesn't conform to 7 = Sunday?  Have you tried
> "0 1 * * 0" ?
>
>
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