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Bryce Porter wrote: |
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> Hi everyone... |
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> I've been having serious problems with cron. It seems that the default |
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> /etc/crontab is not getting used by crontab. After an initial install, I |
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> ran crontab -e and it was blank, but /etc/crontab had many things in it. |
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Yeah, dcron ignores /etc/crontab, you must run crontab /etc/crontab to |
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get it working. |
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> After putting things into the crontab with crontab -e it works, but I have |
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> it setup to run something once every 15 minutes and it runs things once |
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> every 5 minutes instead (according to the docs and #linpeople on |
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> openprojects.net, the contents are correct). |
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> Also, the standard ways of changing the editor invoked with crontab -e do |
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> not work. I tried "export EDITOR=joe" and "export VISUAL=joe" but crontab |
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> -e still failed to run joe instead of vi. I then resorted to moving |
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> /usr/bin/vi to /usr/bin/vi-old and ln -s /usr/bin/joe /usr/bin/vi and then |
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> it STILL tries to invoke vi, but it fails saying "Couldn't open |
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> '/usr/lib/virc'". |
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dcron ignores those variables. |
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> Alot of people suggested I switch to vixiecron instead of dcron, because |
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> of thier previous experiences with dcron. I was told vixie |
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> wouldn't have these problems. |
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Hrm, you can try the vcron package if you prefere vixicron. But there is |
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no init.d script for that cron at the moment. |
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You can copy dcron to cron and replace /usr/sbin/crond with |
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/usr/bin/cron and things should work. Make sure you run rc-update del |
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svc-dcron |
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before you activate the new cron init script. |
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> I was wondering if there was a way we could switch the default |
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> implementation of cron to vixie so that these problems could be fixed? |
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I plan to make all three cron packages usable (fcron,drcon and vcron). |
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Daniel preferes dcron because it is the simplest one so |
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it will still be the default. |
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bye achim~ |
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> Has anyone else experienced the same problems? |
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> Thanks for your time. |
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> Bryce Porter |
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> BP Web Design |
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> bporter@××××××××××.net |
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> x86@g.o |
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