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cron errors only

If you run a cron job and you would like to only see the errors reported use cronic on Centos or chrronic on Ubuntu. The latter comes with the package moreutils apt-get install moreutils

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Cron working but not executing?

I was struggling to understand why cron, which was running ok, was not executing my file in /etc/cron.hourly/hourly.backup while if I would run this script by hand it was working file! The reason is that cron doesn’t like a dot in a filename (at least in Ubuntu)

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