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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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Neil Bothwick |
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Like Entropy, bugs can only be created, not destroyed. |
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