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Run all scripts in cron.daily right now

caution rootCrondebian, ubuntu

Caution: This command changes the system. Understand what it does before you run it.

Adjust the values, the command updates live
root@server
run-parts --verbose /etc/cron.daily

Starts all executable scripts in the directory one after another and announces each before it starts. Useful for checking after a change whether all jobs run without errors. On Debian these include logrotate, man-db or dpkg, which do real work in the process.

Note: Check first with run-parts --test what would run. On systems where these jobs are handled by systemd timers, they may end up running twice.

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Check which scripts in cron.daily actually run

$run-parts --test /etc/cron.daily
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Find out which cron job runs a command

#grep -rn "wp-cron.php" /etc/crontab /etc/cron.d /etc/cron.hourly /etc/cron.daily /etc/cron.weekly /etc/cron.monthly /var/spool/cron/crontabs 2>/dev/null
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Prevent overlapping cron jobs with flock

$flock -n /tmp/backup.lock /usr/local/bin/backup.sh
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Show currently running cron jobs

$ps -eo pid,user,etime,cmd --forest | grep -A3 '[C]RON'
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Show system-wide cron jobs in /etc/crontab and /etc/cron.d

$grep -vE '^\s*(#|$)' /etc/crontab /etc/cron.d/*
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Show the cron log: when which job ran

#journalctl -u cron --since today --no-pager
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