How to Stop and Restart Service

[effe]

Hi all,

for stop and restart one service is possible use a cron daemon?

i have try to configure a cron.daily but script don't find a command for stopping vmware service.

I think that cron.daily don't find a PATH. :confused:

Subject: Cron <root@test> cd /sbin/service vmware stop
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
X-Cron-Env: <USER=root>

/bin/sh: line 0: /sbin/service: Not a directory

how I can make a backup for my virtual machine?

thanxs

[ahz2]

take out "cd" before "/sbin"

[effe]

Subject: Cron <root@test> cd /sbin/service vmware stop
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
X-Cron-Env: <USER=root>

how can i change this parameter?
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>

effe

[ahz2]

1. Run crontab -e
2. At the beginning of the file type
PATH=/foo:/blah

But I doubt the path is the problem. The real problem seems to be a spurious "cd" before "/sbin/service"

[effe]

nothing to do....

Subject: Cron <root@Xsrv> cd /sbin/service vmware stop
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
X-Cron-Env: <USER=root>

/bin/sh: line 0: cd: /sbin/service: Not a directory


i have made this change in crontab:


0 22 * * * cd /sbin/service vmware stop
0 4 * * * cd /sbin/service vmware start

do you have any ideas?

thanx effe

[ilja]

Don't use cd ! Not

0 22 * * * cd /sbin/service vmware stop
but

0 22 * * * /sbin/service vmware stop
cd means change directory!

[effe]

ok ok

i have fixed my problem..... thank you....

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Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 22:00:02 +0100
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From: root@Xsrv.local.net (Cron Daemon)
To: root@Xsrv.local.net
Subject: Cron <root@Xsrv> /sbin/service vmware stop
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/foo:/blah>
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
X-Cron-Env: <USER=root>

Stopping VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor[ OK ]
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0[ OK ]
DHCP server on /dev/vmnet1[ OK ]
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1[ OK ]
DHCP server on /dev/vmnet8[ OK ]
NAT service on /dev/vmnet8[ OK ]
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8[ OK ]
Virtual ethernet[ OK ]


My crontab

PATH=/foo:/blah
0 22 * * * /sbin/service vmware stop
0 4 * * * /sbin/service vmware start

[ilja]

PATH=/foo:/blah

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo :D and http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3092.txt

[ahz2]

Great, now I have to make sure all my usage of foo confirms to RFC. :rolleyes:

effe: "foo" means whatever you want, so you can use whichever path name you want in place of foo. Just list directory names with a colon in between, and start with PATH=. You are simply setting the environment variable a string delimited by colons.

PATH=/usr:/usr/bin:/sbin/usr/sbin

Now that you removed the bad cd, you may want to remove PATH. I think the cd was the problem, not PATH.

[effe]

ahz2, i have tried to do..but noting.... if you see here
Subject: Cron <root@Xsrv> cd /sbin/service vmware stop
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
X-Cron-Env: <USER=root>

/bin/sh: line 0: cd: /sbin/service: Not a directory

the task interpreter think that /sbin/service is a directory....

thank you for your help and please me for a bad english!

effe

[ahz2]

remove cd from before /sbin/service
remove cd from before /sbin/service

[effe]

ok stop....