Resolved limiting crontab

[carini]

Server operating system version

Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS

Plesk version and microupdate number

Plesk Obsidian v18.0.58_build1800240123.15

There is a way to limit crontab frequency for non-admin users. I wish to prevent the user to run some unnecessary script to run every minute and to set up a maximum frequency to every 5 minutes or more

Is this possible?

 

[Ohya]

Hi

Not know any option to do it in plesk, but will be nice have some option for that

You can make some script to path this with something like this: sed -i 's/^\s*\*\s\+\S/*\/5/g' /path/to/crons/*

You can make more completed script to exclude users like root, admin and any other.

 

[Peter Debik]

Nice idea with stream editing the cron files. The path to the cron files will be /var/spool/cron.

If I was a user who got limited, I'd put a while-loop into my script with a "sleep(60)" and a runtime limit of <5 minutes in that case so that I still execute my desired functions every minute or even more frequent, regardless on how often I was allowed to start it via cron. For that reason I did not put this request into Feature Suggestions: Top (1991 ideas) – Your Ideas for Plesk, as you can't really limit users with such intent. Anyway, if you believe it would be a feature to make Plesk a better product, feel free to add it to Uservoice anyway.