"Weekly" parity check - not run [SOLVED]

[Whaler_99]

Hey guys, I added this to my GO file last week, taking the script Joe made for the monthly parity check and modifying to run weekly... Woke up this morning, and nada. Just wondering what I missed....

 

In my GO file I have:

 

/boot/weekly_parity_check.sh

 

Within this "weekly" file i have:

 

#!/bin/sh
crontab -l >/tmp/crontab
grep -q "/root/mdcmd check" /tmp/crontab 1>/dev/null 2>&1
if [ "$?" = "1" ]
then
    echo "# check parity every Sun at 1 am:" >>/tmp/crontab
    echo "0 2 * * Mon /root/mdcmd check NOCORRECT 1>/dev/null 2>&1" >>/tmp/crontab
    cp /tmp/crontab /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root-
    crontab /tmp/crontab
fi

 

All looks good to me. If I do a crontab -l on my console I get:

# check parity every Sun at 1 am:
0 2 * * Mon /root/mdcmd check NOCORRECT 1>/dev/null 2>&1

 

Yes, I know i have the wrong date and time in the title section.

 

Just wondering why nothing ran.

 

Thanks!

 

[Joe L.]

Hey guys, I added this to my GO file last week, taking the script Joe made for the monthly parity check and modifying to run weekly... Woke up this morning, and nada. Just wondering what I missed....

 

In my GO file I have:

 

/boot/weekly_parity_check.sh

 

Within this "weekly" file i have:

 

#!/bin/sh
crontab -l >/tmp/crontab
grep -q "/root/mdcmd check" /tmp/crontab 1>/dev/null 2>&1
if [ "$?" = "1" ]
then
    echo "# check parity every Sun at 1 am:" >>/tmp/crontab
    echo "0 2 * * Mon /root/mdcmd check NOCORRECT 1>/dev/null 2>&1" >>/tmp/crontab
    cp /tmp/crontab /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root-
    crontab /tmp/crontab
fi

 

All looks good to me. If I do a crontab -l on my console I get:

# check parity every Sun at 1 am:
0 2 * * Mon /root/mdcmd check NOCORRECT 1>/dev/null 2>&1

 

Yes, I know i have the wrong date and time in the title section.

 

Just wondering why nothing ran.

 

Thanks!

 

Probably because the date syntax is not understood.   

The day of the week is represent by a number from 0-6 (0=sunday)

perhaps try this:

0 2 * * 1 /root/mdcmd check NOCORRECT 1>/dev/null 2>&1

[Whaler_99]

Ahh, thanks! I had done some research on dates and cron and thought for days of the week you could use that, at least the example I saw showed that. I will change it to run tonight and see if it work.

 

Shawn

 

[Whaler_99]

Modified the "Mon" to a "1" to test and worked like a charm!

 

Thanks!

Shawn