[NTLUG:Discuss] RH 8.0 crontab won't work - crond is running

[kbrannen@gte.net]

jay linux wrote:
...
> These were good suggestions. But it turns out that my crond is running 
> and when I change
> echo to /bin/echo it still doesn't work.
> 
> I'm really confused as to why I can't get crontab to work. Anyone have 
> any further ideas of either
> how to fix or test this?

1. try another program, e.g. "ls / > /tmp/ls.out" and see if that works.  set 
the time to fire to be 5 minutes from when you do this so you don't have to 
wait until tomorrow to see the results. :-)

2. what does /var/log/messages say?  anything useful?

3. try it as another user, or even as root, to see if it's a permissions thing 
(a variation of the question someone else posed about cron.allow & cron.deny).

HTH,
Kevin