[NTLUG:Discuss] RH 8.0 crontab

[Darin W. Smith]

Hmm...this stinketh familiarly...

I run a heavily patched Mandrake 8.1 & have had problems getting crond to 
actually run my entries in the past.

I had a script that would run fine from the shell, but never seemed to run 
from cron.  /var/log/messages reported that cron was running it, but it 
wasn't running because what it was supposed to do never happened.

I fussed with explicit path names for everything, etc., etc., etc. in both 
the script and my crontab.  Then magically, it started working, and I don't 
know why (but I haven't touched it since!).

I'm speculating that it is some kind of whitespace or line termination 
issue in certain versions of crond.

D!

On Fri, 16 May 2003 16:52:50 +0000, jay linux <jaylinux at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I tried this as root because of the suggestion that a user might not have 
> access..
>
> 00 08 * * * ls / > /tmp/file
>
> Where of course this is 8am on every day. -- This didn't work.
>
> There is nothing in /var/log/messsages
>
> /etc/cron.d has no allow or disallow files
>
> I can see my entries in /var/spool/cron (for my user account and root)
>
> My crond is running
>
> Still trying to figure out what's failing....
>
> --- Jay
>
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D!
Darin W. Smith
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