[Bio-Linux] Cron and Qiime

[Anthony Pemberton]

Mike,

I can only help with item 1:

First check to see whether cron is running

%  ps -ef | grep cron | grep -v grep

If not you will need to set this running:

% sudo start cron

Cron reads /etc/crontab which starts anacron at the appropriate times, running cron.daily. If the backup disk is empty, either the backup is being misdirected or it is not occurring. See if you can see where the backup if it is occurring, is going by looking at:

/etc/cron.daily/backup

I am assuming the latest 'setup backup disk' utility sets this file up correctly and sets cron running.


Regards,

Tony Pemberton

-----Original Message-----
From: bio-linux-bounces at nebclists.nerc.ac.uk [mailto:bio-linux-bounces at nebclists.nerc.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Cox, Michael J
Sent: 29 September 2010 15:41
To: bio-linux at nebclists.nerc.ac.uk
Subject: [Bio-Linux] Cron and Qiime

Dear All,

Hope you can forgive two, probably quite naive, questions.

1. I have recently installed Biolinux 6 as sole operating system on our new workstation.  I have two hard drives and so have used the 'setup backup disk' utility to format the second for automated backups.  The NEBC website gives details of how to restore back-ups, but I'd like to check to see whether they're actually being made nightly.  su-ing to root I can access the second hard drive, but the only directory, Lost+Found is empty.  Does this mean that cron.daily isn't running and how can I remedy this?  I also have packages to update in the morning, which should also be run automatically by cron.daily, adding to my suspicions.

2. Has anyone attempted a native install of Qiime and its dependencies on Biolinux 6? http://qiime.sourceforge.net/install/install.html
I am having an issue getting various programs that are present to be recognised.  I am editing .customrc in /etc/zsh/zshrc.d in order to set paths in zsh, but it doesn't seem to be working - is this the correct file to edit?

Thanks for your help

Mike Cox

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