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Palante Tech Blog: 2008

Troubleshooting custom cron scripts

Submitted by jackaponte on Mon, 04/14/2008 - 4:28am

I often have trouble when creating my own scripts to be run by cron on Linux servers. On most of the servers that I administer, I use a homegrown backup script (based on these excellent instructions) that I place in /etc/cron.daily. After upgrading a server to Debian Etch recently I found that my backup script, named backup-script.sh, was no longer working.

After stumbling around in the dark for a while, I found a useful tool to use when trying to troubleshoot cron jobs:

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Adventures in netbooting, part 2

Submitted by jackaponte on Tue, 03/25/2008 - 4:49am

Back at the ALP office and therefore back to work on netbooting. After making sure that TFTP was up and running, I moved on to downloading the netbootable OS that I'll be using on my network.

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Adventures in netbooting, part 1

Submitted by jackaponte on Tue, 03/18/2008 - 8:09am

This my documentation of the work I did to get netbooting working at a client's office for troubleshooting and imaging Windows workstations.

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