Broken crontab/anacron
Robert Locke
rlocke at ralii.com
Tue Jan 25 13:19:39 UTC 2005
On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 06:27 -0500, James Pifer wrote:
> > A very quick test of cron. Put this line in /etc/crontab
> >
> > * * * * * root touch /root/crontest ; echo "crontest updated"
> >
> > Then look at the file to see the date//time stamp
> > ls -l /root/crontest
> >
> > If cron is doing it's job the time stamp should get updated once per
> > minute so it should stay current on date/time forever (until you remove
> > the entry from /etc/crontab) You also should get an email to root once
> > a minute with the echoed message.
> >
> > Note, you will want to remove that line from crontab very soon.
> >
>
> Jeff,
>
> I get nothing. No /root/crontest file created and no messages in root's
> mailbox.
>
> My crontab now looks like:
> [root at mythtv ~]# cat /etc/crontab
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> MAILTO=root
> HOME=/
>
> # run-parts
> 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
> 02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
> 22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
> 42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
> * * * * * root touch /root/crontest ; echo "crontest updated"
>
> Should I reinstall cron?
Pardon for jumping in here, but have you restarted crond since you made
the change to /etc/crontab? I am not sure if crond is going to
automagically notice a change to the file or not.... So, to restart the
cron daemon, you could do either a "service crond restart" or a "service
crond reload".
HTH,
--Rob
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