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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