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cagsm wrote:
salam,
just realized, that crontab is almost empty on one of my clean x86 11.0 systems (all current onlineupdates applied).
affected system looks like:
SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/lib/news/bin MAILTO=root # # check scripts in cron.hourly, cron.daily, cron.weekly, and cron.monthly # -*/15 * * * * root test -x /usr/lib/cron/run-crons && /usr/lib/cron/run-crons >/dev/null 2>&1
on some other system i dont have this problem. there are several cron.daily, hourly, monthly and weekly or something lines. who and when do these lines get created, and how can i get them created?
also grep for crontab in /var/log/messages only displays lines when cron gets started or restarted. Mar 16 11:29:52 linux /usr/sbin/cron[3479]: (CRON) STARTUP (V5.0)
the other system displays all those starts of hourly, daily, weekly and monthly.
greetings.
Did you even look at what above even does? What does run-crons do? What does the "-" at the beginning of a crontab line mean to this version of cron? The answers to all your questions are found within the answers to these two. Also, this is not exactly new. Looking around, even my old 10.0 boxes have that same setup. That's at least 6 releases. Though by another reckoning it's only been about 3 1/2 years since oct 2005 which could be called "recent" in all contexts except computers. -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org