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on Friday 03/16/2007 Neil Bothwick(neil@××××××××××.uk) wrote |
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> On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 06:06:53 -0400, John covici wrote: |
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> > And if I take the entries out of cron.d and put them into crontab they |
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> > are executed correctly and this is why I asked the question. |
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> Ignore my previous reply, whatever I was on, it had insufficient |
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> caffeine :( |
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> cron.d does indeed work here, provided the lines have exactly the same |
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> format as in crontab; e.g. "tail -n 1 /etc/crontab >/etc/cron.d/test" |
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> works as it should. |
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> Are you setting the execute bit on the files in cron.d? In the past, I've |
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> found that this prevents their being run. |
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Indeed the user exec bit is on, didn't know that it made any |
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difference, but I will try with it off. |
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Yep, that did it -- thanks much guys. Never heard of that before. |
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Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: |
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How do |
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you spend it? |
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John Covici |
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covici@××××××××××.com |
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