Broken crontab/anacron

Robert Nichols rnichols42 at comcast.net
Tue Jan 25 17:31:46 UTC 2005


James Pifer wrote:
>>what do you get if you run " # ps aux | grep cron " ?
>>Mine gives 
>>[jeff at goliath ~]$ ps aux | grep cron
>>root      4266  0.0  0.1  4444  812 ?        Ss   00:58   0:00 crond
>>
>>That indicates crond is running as the service
> 
> 
> Looks like it's running. 
> 
> [root at mythtv ~]# ps aux | grep cron
> root     20854  0.0  0.0  5116  696 ?        Ss   07:40   0:00 crond
> 
> 
> 
>>You have removed the lines for your mythtv installation.
>>They can be put back if the files are in /root as the paths indicate.
>>
> 
> 
> I removed them in case they were somehow causing the problem. The paths
> were correct, the files were in /root. 
> 
> Yet they won't run when they're in there. Is there any way to see any
> debug or realtime feedback from cron?

Have you checked /var/log/cron ?  There should be a RELOAD event logged
within 1 minute after any change to /etc/crontab .

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Bob Nichols         rnichols42 at comcast.net




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