cron seems dormant

I've had SuSE 10 installed on my HP box for roughly a week, now, and cron has yet to do the job regarding the daily stuff, at least. I tried the hourly and it, too, seemed not to notice. At least that one appeared in the logs but nothing happened --i.e., #logrotate /etc/logrotate --force-- and it should have happened for the simple reason that issuing that command by hand does rotate the logs. Anyone else having cron problems?? I remember on other time, on either 9.1,.2., or .3 when I had the same problem (but I didn't stay with any of them long enough to figure it out as too much other stuff was busted). Thanks! -- ...Yogich