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Renat Golubchyk wrote: |
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>On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:15:04 -0500 John Jolet <john@×××××.net> wrote: |
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>>On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 17:11 -0400, Matt Randolph wrote: |
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>>>I have a script in /etc/cron.daily that never runs. It works |
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>>>properly when run manually and it's been in there for weeks (and a |
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>>>reboot or two). |
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>>>I'm using vixie-cron. |
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>Is the executable bit set? Otherwise run "chmod u+x scriptname". |
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>>cron.daily doesn't get run from cron. gets run out of anacron....do |
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>>you have anacron installed? |
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>That's wrong. I don't have anacron installed, I have plain vixie-cron, |
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>and cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly} gets run from cron. Here are the |
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>relevant lines from /etc/crontab: |
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># check scripts in cron.hourly, cron.daily, cron.weekly and cron.monthly |
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>0 * * * * root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly |
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>30 6 * * * root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily |
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>15 7 * * 6 root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.weekly |
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>0 8 1 * * root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.monthly |
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>*/10 * * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons |
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>Cheers, |
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>Renat |
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Thanks to everyone for their replies, but especially to Renat, Peter and |
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Willie. Looking again, I saw that the line pertaining to run-crons was |
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commented out. Perhaps it's time for me to increase the size of my |
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console font. ;-) |
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Matt |
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