Broken crontab/anacron

James Pifer jep at obrien-pifer.com
Wed Jan 26 00:39:13 UTC 2005


> At this point it might be best to reinstall crond. I have 3 packages for
> cron but only 2 are related to crond. the other is anacron and is not an
> issue at this time.
> 
> [jeff at goliath ~]$ rpm -qa | grep cron
> anacron-2.3-32
> crontabs-1.10-7
> vixie-cron-4.1-20_FC3
> 
> You might try both crontabs and vixie-cron.
> There are some things that have dependencies on cron and crontabs so be
> careful there.
> 

I have already downgraded it the version on the CD. After that didn't
help I re-upgraded it. Is there no way to run crond in some kind of
debug mode?

Not sure what to do now. 

Thanks for the help.
James




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