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cron anyone?
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mzandrew
2007-04-27 , 17:50
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I installed it and it doesn't seem to run my cron jobs. I'm a bit rusty on crontabs, so forgive me if it's my fault.
On my desktop machine, this runs all the scripts in /etc/cron.hourly every hour on the hour:
Code:
01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
and the same line on my 770 does nothing. I have a script called "touchy" in each /etc/cron.hourly that simply touches a file in the root directory so that I can easily tell whether it's working.
Since there's no /var/log/messages on my 770, I can't even see the error message that cron would be reporting.
What I did: I ran the installer after untarring the file in /root. I didn't reboot after install, I just ran cron. I edited the crontab using crontab -e. I've tried killing cron and re-running it to no avail.
Any ideas anyone?
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