I would like to automate CentOS7 server updates. According to the internet it is possible by installing yum-cron and editing the /etc/yum/yum-cron.conf file. However, I don't see how I can schedule this to run on a monthly basis. I have tried scheduling it in anacrontab, but it does not seem to work(nothing happens). The only time it appears to work is when I add the same settings in the /etc/cron.daily/0yum-daily.cronfile, but again not sure on how to get this to run monthly instead of daily. If I need to alter crontab what would be the command to run yum-cron once a month?
You can add settings inside directory /etc/cron.monthly/
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I have a simple python script that is hosted on Heroku and I'm using the Heroku Scheduler to run the script every hour/day. The script will possibly update a simple .txt file (could also be a config var if possible) when it runs. When it does run and conditions are met, I need that value stored and used when the next scheduled script runs. The value changed is simply a date.
However, since the app is containerized based on the most recent code I have on Github, it doesn't store those changes anywhere to be used again. Is there any way I can accomplish to update the file and use it every time it runs? Any simple add-ons or other solutions I can use?
Heroku Dynos have a local file system that does not survive an application restart or redeployment, therefore it cannot be used to persist data.
Typically you have 2 options:
use a database. On Heroku you can use (there is also a Free tier) Postgres
save the file on external storage (S3, Dropbox, even GitHub). See Files on Heroku for details and examples
I have been monitoring the Complete learning plans which are due task, which is set to run every minute. I have set the cron.php script with a password to force the cron job to run. When I reload the page I notice that the cron job runs, sets the next run date time, but doesn't run again and changes to ASAP.
I am using Moodle 3.6.3 on Windows IIS.
Create a task in task scheduler to execute the script after every minute (or any time you want). Use "Start a program" action. Replace "C:\Program Files\PHP\v7.2\php-win.exe" with your php version and also change the moodle path to yours.
I am new to suite crm and have successfully set it up and is up and running.
The notification system is not working at all and not showing up any alerts.
Here is what I have done
Succesfully setup suite crm and working well
Set up cronjobs on server as mentioned on the admin/ sheduler sections
Repaired scheduler after setting up the scheduler
Tested to see if the notification works or not by setting up the renewal reminder date fields in the contract module but the notification is not showing up.
What am I missing or doing wrong. In the admin/scheduler settings I can see the lists of schedulers. How to know which scheduler will serve my purpose. Is it possible to create new scheduler. I cannot see any options to create a new scheduler.
Make sure you have set properly set permission on server. 755 on all suitecrm files and 777 for cache and custom. After that execute repair and rebuild. Execute any database mismatch query.
After that make sure that "Optimise Advanced OpenDiscovery Index" scheduler is executing without any issue. See following image for reference:
I'm using Tableau Desktop 9.0 to create a visualization by extracting the data from DB2 database. But this database is updated everyday. That is, at the every time the data in the database changes. So is it possible for me to schedule a task of refreshing the extracted data source automatically at specific interval of time so that, after updating the report should reflect the results accordingly. Can this be done through Tableau Desktop automatically? The main thing is that it can easily be done on Tableau Server as known. But I cannot afford for a Server so I'm trying to get an answer is it possible with the Tableau Desktop or not.
Use the Tableau Data Extract Command-Line Utility in a batch script (like DOS/cmd or PowerShell) and schedule the batch script to run on the Windows Task Scheduler.
Assuming you're using Windows. Use Task Scheduler to schedule (a variation of) the following Powershell script on a daily basis.
C:\Program Files\Tableau\Tableau 9.0\bin>tableau refreshextract--server
https://blah_blah_server_name --username YourServerSignIn --password
YourServerPwd --datasource "Some_Table" --source-username YourDatabaseSignIn
--source-password YourDatabasePassword
We use an ETL process to pull data from Google Cloud Storage, but annoyingly it hangs everytime Google releases udpates to GSUtil, because it sits at a prompt asking if you want to update the library. Fine if you are doing this manually, but not cool when it's being run in an automated SSIS package, as jobs don't finish for days and you keep wasting time with the same stupid cause.
I thought I was going to be cleaver, and add "python gsutil update -n" to the top of the bash script I'm automating the building/execution of in my SSIS Package in the hope to curb this problem, but when I run this command from the prompt in either Windows Server 2008r2 or Windows 7 I get the following:
C:\gsutil>python gsutil update -f -n
Copying gs://pub/gsutil.tar.gz...
OSError: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.
Any help?
P.S. - Also, Google engineers... can you PLEASE remove these prompts? for all of us using these tools in automated processes? I have other things to work on, instead of constantly going back to things like this every few days/weeks.
What version of gsutil are you running?
Also, to be clear: Are you talking about the fact that gsutil checks for available software updates periodically, and if it finds them it then prompts you whether you want to update? Or are you talking about the fact that the gsutil update command asks if you want to perform the update?
If the former, gsutil shouldn't be performing this check/prompting if you are running gsutil from a script not connected to at TTY. If that's not working correctly we'd like to know.
And also, if that's the problem you're having, you can completely disable automated software update checks by setting software_update_check_period=0 in the [GSUtil] section of your .boto config file.