Broken crontab/anacron
James Pifer
jep at obrien-pifer.com
Mon Jan 24 21:07:58 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 11:08, Robert Nichols wrote:
> James Pifer wrote:
> > I rebuilt one of my systems last week using FC3 and somehow I broke
> > anacron or crontab. It hasn't run since Jan 20th according to what is in
> > root's mailbox.
> >
> > I think the problem is anacron. I can't seem to get it running, or at
> > least keep it running. It says it starts, but then when I look at the
> > processes, it isn't running. The problem is I don't see anything in any
> > logs about problems with it.
> >
> > Does anacron write logs to messages?
> > What's the best way to troubleshoot it?
> >
> > My /etc/crontab HAD this in it:
> > SHELL=/bin/bash
> > PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> > MAILTO=root
> > HOME=/
> >
> > # run-parts
> > 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
> > 02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
> > 22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
> > 42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
> > 00 01 * * * root /root/mythtvdbbackup
> > 00 03 * * * root /root/backupvideos
> > 35 * * * * root /root/mythlink.sh
> >
> >
> > Now it has this:
> > SHELL=/bin/bash
> > PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> > MAILTO=root
> > HOME=/
> >
> > # run-parts
> > 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
> > 02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
> > 22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
> > 42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
> >
> >
> > Permissions on it are:
> > [root at mythtv etc]# ls -l crontab
> > -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 254 Jan 24 09:22 crontab
> >
> >
> > Here's what I get when I try to start it.
> > [root at mythtv etc]# service anacron start
> > Starting anacron: [ OK ]
> > [root at mythtv etc]# service anacron status
> > anacron is stopped
> > [root at mythtv etc]#
Any other ideas why cron is not working correctly?
Thanks,
James
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