I have a monthly parity check scheduled to run on the first of every month.

How can I tell unraid to skip the check on Feb 1st but still run the others?

Thx

 

Don't install to script until after  Feb 1.

In my go script it runs a script that contains this:

 

#!/bin/sh

crontab -l >/tmp/crontab

grep -q "/root/mdcmd check" /tmp/crontab 1>/dev/null 2>&1

if [ "$?" = "1" ]

then

    echo "# check parity on the first of every month at midnight:" >>/tmp/crontab

    echo "0 0 1 * * /root/mdcmd check 1>/dev/null 2>&1" >>/tmp/crontab

    cp /tmp/crontab /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root-

    crontab /tmp/crontab

fi

 

I want to disable this from running on Feb 1st.

How do I do this without restarting unraid and commenting out the line in the go script?

 

At the shell prompt type crontab -e

Then comment out the command.

After feb 1 uncoment out that line.

There are other ways to do this but thats likely the most simple.

 

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Thank you. That will work great.

 

In my go script it runs a script that contains this:

 

#!/bin/sh

crontab -l >/tmp/crontab

grep -q "/root/mdcmd check" /tmp/crontab 1>/dev/null 2>&1

if [ "$?" = "1" ]

then

    echo "# check parity on the first of every month at midnight:" >>/tmp/crontab

    echo "0 0 1 * * /root/mdcmd check 1>/dev/null 2>&1" >>/tmp/crontab

    cp /tmp/crontab /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root-

    crontab /tmp/crontab

fi

 

I want to disable this from running on Feb 1st.

How do I do this without restarting unraid and commenting out the line in the go script?

 

Enter this command on the command line to get it to skip Feb 1st, but still do all the other months..

crontab -l | sed "sX^0 0 1 \* \* /root/mdcmdX0 0 1 1,3-12 * /root/mdcmdX" | crontab -

 

It will change the line in crontab from

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

to

0 0 1 1,3-12 * /root/mdcmd check NOCORRECT 1>/dev/null 2>&1

 

enter this to put it back so it does every month once more:

crontab -l | sed "sX^0 0 1 1,3-12 \* /root/mdcmdX0 0 1 * * /root/mdcmdX" | crontab -

Thanks Joe