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On Friday 16 March 2007 11:06, John covici wrote: |
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> > It does work for me, as mentioned in the docs. The caveat is that |
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> > entries have to be entered in /etc/crontab syntax (ie, with an |
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> > explicit username). |
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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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Ah...well, then I'm afraid I can't help you, since it works for me. |
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I tested it with a simple entry like this: |
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# cat /etc/cron.d/testcrond |
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52 10 * * * root /usr/bin/touch /root/testfile |
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and the file "testfile" appeared as expected at 10:52. |
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This is my version of vixie-cron: |
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# eix vixie-cron |
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[I] sys-process/vixie-cron |
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Available versions: 4.1-r9 |
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Installed versions: 4.1-r9(13:00:45 01/09/06)(-debug pam -selinux) |
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Homepage: ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/cron/ |
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Description: Paul Vixie's cron daemon, a fully featured |
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crond implementation |
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