cron jobs not running

[Andy Green]

Brian D. McGrew wrote:

> Any other ideas what I should be looking for?  Even putting a simple
> line in like:
> 
> 1,5,10 * * * * /bin/ls -la / >> /tmp/cron.ls_log 2>&1 

the main /etc/crontab file has a slight variation in syntax: you need to
add the user to run the job as just before the job details:

1,5,10 * * * * root /bin/ls -la / >> /tmp/cron.ls_log 2>&1

-Andy
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