cron not working :(

[Jonathan Kamens]

Woops, should have said "crond" rather than "cronie" in my 
instructions.  Sorry about the typos.

  jik

On 02/07/2008 08:37 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> --- Jonathan Kamens <jik at kamens.brookline.ma.us>
> wrote:
>
>   
>> Cronie RPM script bug.  Init script is disabled
>> after cronie installed.  Fixed in next release of
>> cronie to Rawhide.  In the meantime, run
>> '/sbin/chkconfig cronie reset; /sbin/chkconfig
>> cronie on; /sbin/service crond start'.
>>
>>   jik
>>     
>
> Thanks, 
>
> I tried your suggestions, but something does not look
> good
>
> [root at localhost ~]# /sbin/chkconfig cronie reset
> error reading information on service cronie: No such
> file or directory
> [root at localhost ~]# /sbin/ckconfig cronie on
> -bash: /sbin/ckconfig: No such file or directory
> [root at localhost ~]# chkconfig cronie reset
> error reading information on service cronie: No such
> file or directory
> [root at localhost ~]# chkconfig cronie on
> error reading information on service cronie: No such
> file or directory
> [root at localhost ~]# service crond start
> Starting crond:                                       
>     [  OK  ]
> [root at localhost ~]# service crond status
> crond (pid 11351) is running...
> [root at localhost ~]# service cronie status
> cronie: unrecognized service
>
> I guess, I should wait for the fix :)  Thanks for your
> clarification.  
>
> Regards,
>
> Antonio 
>
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 8:11 PM
>> To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
>> Subject: cron not working :(
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I have a cron job that plays music in the mornings
>> when I get to work.
>>
>> Mplayer plays from a custom playlist of songs.  It
>> turns on at 7:06 am and stops playing at 8:25 5
>> minutes before the bell.  For the past two or three
>> days, the music has stopped playing :(
>>
>> Here's what is in crontab and the corresponding
>> versions of *cron*
>>
>> [olivares at localhost ~]$ crontab -l
>> # min  hr  mon  dom  dow  command
>>    06  7    *   *   1-5  ~/alarm >& /dev/null
>>    25  8    *   *   1-5 killall -9
>> /usr/local/bin/mplayer >& /dev/null
>>   05 19 * * 1-5 ~/alarm2 >& /dev/null
>> [olivares at localhost ~]$ rpm -qa crontab*
>> crontabs-1.10-19.fc9.noarch
>> [olivares at localhost ~]$ rpm -qa *cron*
>> crontabs-1.10-19.fc9.noarch
>> cronie-1.0-3.fc9.i386
>> anacron-2.3-57.fc9.i386
>> [olivares at localhost ~]$ 
>>
>> If there would be a bug to be filed, against which
>> one
>> should I file against so that I can get my cron jobs
>> working again?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Antonio 
>>
>>
>>      
>>
>>     
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