Step to rebuild crontab file of zimbra user
Step to rebuilt crontab file of zimbra user
First we have to take backup of current crontab file, then we will use following command to re-built crontab for zimbra user.
# cp -pvr /var/spool/cron/zimbra /tmp/zimbra.cron.BAK # cat /opt/zimbra/zimbramon/crontabs/crontab > /tmp/cron.zimbra # cat /opt/zimbra/zimbramon/crontabs/crontab.ldap >> /tmp/cron.zimbra # cat /opt/zimbra/zimbramon/crontabs/crontab.store >> /tmp/cron.zimbra # cat /opt/zimbra/zimbramon/crontabs/crontab.logger >> /tmp/cron.zimbra # cat /opt/zimbra/zimbramon/crontabs/crontab.mta >> /tmp/cron.zimbra # echo "# ZIMBRAEND -- DO NOT EDIT ANYTHING BETWEEN THIS LINE AND ZIMBRASTART" >> /tmp/cron.zimbra # crontab -u zimbra /tmp/cron.zimbra # su - zimbra -c "zmschedulebackup -D" # /etc/init.d/crond restart
Here we have mentioned the commands according to the role of ZCS server.
# cp -pvr /var/spool/cron/zimbra /tmp/zimbra.cron.BAK # cat /opt/zimbra/zimbramon/crontabs/crontab > /tmp/cron.zimbra # cat /opt/zimbra/zimbramon/crontabs/crontab.ldap >> /tmp/cron.zimbra # echo "# ZIMBRAEND -- DO NOT EDIT ANYTHING BETWEEN THIS LINE AND ZIMBRASTART" >> /tmp/cron.zimbra # crontab -u zimbra /tmp/cron.zimbra # su - zimbra -c "zmschedulebackup -D" # /etc/init.d/crond restart
# cp -pvr /var/spool/cron/zimbra /tmp/zimbra.cron.BAK # cat /opt/zimbra/zimbramon/crontabs/crontab > /tmp/cron.zimbra # cat /opt/zimbra/zimbramon/crontabs/crontab.store >> /tmp/cron.zimbra # echo "# ZIMBRAEND -- DO NOT EDIT ANYTHING BETWEEN THIS LINE AND ZIMBRASTART" >> /tmp/cron.zimbra # crontab -u zimbra /tmp/cron.zimbra # su - zimbra -c "zmschedulebackup -D" # /etc/init.d/crond restart
# cp -pvr /var/spool/cron/zimbra /tmp/zimbra.cron.BAK # cat /opt/zimbra/zimbramon/crontabs/crontab > /tmp/cron.zimbra # cat /opt/zimbra/zimbramon/crontabs/crontab.mta >> /tmp/cron.zimbra # echo "# ZIMBRAEND -- DO NOT EDIT ANYTHING BETWEEN THIS LINE AND ZIMBRASTART" >> /tmp/cron.zimbra # crontab -u zimbra /tmp/cron.zimbra # /etc/init.d/crond restart
Note :
We have to restart Cron service after installing new crontab file.
Here is the commands to restart Cron service on different OS versions.
Ubuntu 12.04/14.04
service cron restart
RHEL/CentOS 7.x
systemctl restart crond systemctl status crond
RHEL/CentOS 6.x
service crond restart
Heera Singh
<hsingh@zimbra.com>
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