On Sunday 03 September 2006 16:07, Rick Friedman wrote:
At 7:55, when the task /root/diff_home_dar_backup.sh should've run, the only message that appears is:
Sep 3 07:55:01 chisum /usr/sbin/cron[4557]: (root) RELOAD (tabs/root)
reload? Did you change the crontab for root manually at 7.54? If you do edit crontab, note that (unless something has changed recently) because of the way cron handles times, you need to give it two minutes head start. In other words, if you make a change at 7.54, the earliest it will run is 7.56 (at least this used to be a bug, I haven't checked if it has been fixed recently)
These tasks had been running fine through cron until this morning. I've tried restarting cron several times. I've also rebooted but to no avail.
Strange. Have a look at the crontab file in a hex editor, and see if perhaps the characters following the 7 are something strange. cron can only handle spaces and tabs