Broken crontab/anacron
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Tue Jan 25 21:09:12 UTC 2005
On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 13:23 -0500, James Pifer wrote:
> >
> > Have you checked /var/log/cron ? There should be a RELOAD event logged
> > within 1 minute after any change to /etc/crontab .
> >
> > --
> > Bob Nichols rnichols42 at comcast.net
>
> Ah, I did not see that log file before. Maybe this will help my
> situation:
>
> Jan 25 11:44:29 mythtv crond[25864]: (CRON) STARTUP (V5.0)
> Jan 25 11:44:29 mythtv crond[25864]: (*system*) BAD FILE MODE
> (/etc/crontab)
>
That seems related to the permissions of /etc/crontab.
By default it is
[jeff at goliath ~]$ ls -l /etc/crontab
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 255 Sep 20 16:58 /etc/crontab
> James
>
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