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Originally Posted by Mavrick4283

Code:

apt-get install cron

Sry I forgot that crontab is included in the cron package

"cron is already the newest version". Seems I have it.

Mavrick4283

Cron is installed normal but it is not a requirement.

I think for Ubuntu server they did a "core" load so very little extra is included by default.

Mavrick4283 · *Last edited by Mavrick4283; 01-08-2014 at 20:35.*

Do

Code:

whereis crontab

and post the output in code tags.

404UserNotFound

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mavrick4283

Do

[code]
whereis crontab
[code]

and post the output in code tags.

Code:

crontab: /usr/bin/crontab /etc/crontab /usr/bin/X11/crontab /usr/share/man/man5/crontab.5.gz /usr/share/man/man1/crontab.1.gz

Mavrick4283

Ok so try

Code:

/usr/bin/crontab -e

404UserNotFound

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mavrick4283

Ok so try

Code:

/usr/bin/crontab -e

Code:

no crontab for root - using an empty one
888

Just like it did when I did "crontab -e" or "sudo crontab -e".

When I sign into PuTTY using my normal account, it opens up just fine and allows me to make a new crontab file, and puts it in the /tmp/ location. I've had the thing sitting in /etc/cron.daily for the past week, because I thought the crontab would run it (the hlstats-awards.pl file) on a daily basis to keep the award-giving automatic, but it never worked and the date was stuck as August 30th, 2008 until I manually ran the file.

According to Kikotte, "more stuff" needs to be added before it can be run by cron.daily.

Mavrick4283 · *Last edited by Mavrick4283; 01-08-2014 at 20:43.*

Ok STOP running shit as root (sudo) it will just open you up to attacks......

As the user that is running the deamon (scripts) do crontab -e and put these in it with the correct paths....

Code:

*/5 * * * * cd /home/user/scripts/ && ./run_hlstats start >/dev/null 2>&1
15 00 * * * cd /home/user/scripts/ && ./hlstats-awards.pl >/dev/null 2>&1

PS: I would like to point out that your are not signing in to "PuTTY" but using putty as your ssh client to login to the server.

404UserNotFound · *Last edited by 404UserNotFound; 01-09-2014 at 00:40.*

Problem solved! Awards have given themselves out automatically now!