-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-05-08 at 15:13 -0500, Nick Jones wrote:
I've been having problems with cron running cron.daily jobs. I can't for the life of me figure it out and it is embarrassing and frustrating.
You simply need to place an executable script in the cron.daily dir. These are run by the "/usr/lib/cron/run-crons" script: you can examine it to see how it works. For example, if it is a laptop on batery, it will not run. You could edit the file so that it logs a message to syslog when it runs or runs something; loo for this line: nice -n ${CRON_SCRIPT_NICE_VALUE} $SCRIPT >$TEMP_MSG 2>&1 You could add below a call to "logger" to log a messge of your choice for each script. Or you could define the variable "SYSLOG_ON_NO_ERROR" to yes (/etc/sysconfig/cron).
So I run service cron restart, it checks /var/spool/tabs/ and /etc/crontab. The crontab is the default and should run cron.daily scripts. I've read that I need a file cron.daily under lastrun (which is empty now) so it's timestamp can be used. I've tried manually creating this and it doesn't work.
That file /dissables/ the script for 24 hours.
According to timestamps it is not reading any files in the system every 15 minutes and it should at least look in lastrun I believe.
It doesn't read, it checks timestamps of the directory. If this stamp changes, then it reads those crontab files. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGQaFTtTMYHG2NR9URAoIVAKCP2gdd0fTdqbJ/OeTf5x8Xqo2pUQCfU0CF Xv3+PMpqFItw+iiK4Gae1zI= =P9pX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org