[Server-devel] /etc/crontab & other regularly scheduled jobs within XSCE/IIAB

[Adam Holt]

George & All,

How can a community deployment monitor which all cron-like jobs are running
hourly/daily/etc on its server?

e.g. Thanks to George's branch release-6.2 work @
https://github.com/georgejhunt/xsce/commit/2a62885158a868bb9170e6121f822d635b5e9eda
(also at
https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/commit/2a62885158a868bb9170e6121f822d635b5e9eda
) kiwix-serve should now be much more reliable, with an hourly restart, as
should very soon be announced in 6.2's Release Notes!

But how can a community deployment monitor all OpenVPN-and-similar
hourly-like job, for those Beta-and-similar implementers wanting to
understand their own system?  e.g. I do not see an OpenVPN cron job here:

root at Internet-in-a-Box:~# more /etc/crontab
# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab
# Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab'
# command to install the new version when you edit this file
# and files in /etc/cron.d. These files also have username fields,
# that none of the other crontabs do.

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

# m h dom mon dow user  command
17 *    * * *   root    cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
25 6    * * *   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts
--repor
t /etc/cron.daily )
47 6    * * 7   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts
--repor
t /etc/cron.weekly )
52 6    1 * *   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts
--repor
t /etc/cron.monthly )
#
15 *  *  *  * root /bin/systemctl restart kiwix-serve.service

Nor do I see it OpenVPN cron job(s) below on this RPi3 running XSCE 6.2
Release Candidate:

root at Internet-in-a-Box:/etc# ls cron*
crontab

cron.d:
awstats  munin  munin-node  php5

cron.daily:
apache2  aptitude      cracklib-runtime  etckeeper   logrotate  mlocate
passwd
apt      bsdmainutils  dpkg              exim4-base  man-db     ntp
samba

cron.hourly:
fake-hwclock

cron.monthly:

cron.weekly:
man-db

Or if OpenVPN uses another mechanism to hold & relaunch its connection
(finely tuned, it works quite well!) where is that "systemctl restart
openvpn at xscenet" or equivalent regularly run from?

With what exact hourly-or-similar schedule, beginning how many minutes
after each hour?

Muchas Gracias!
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