Can't make cron work I made a jump to Debian from Slackware a few weeks ago. The only weird thing I haven't been able to fix is cron: it's running, and I have entries in my crontab to pick up some mailboxen, but they don't happen *ever*.
I've checked that:
- Cron is running
- I can run the commands fine from a shell myself
- I don't have an /etc/cron.allow or cron.deny file.
- Things in the daily list do take place (like update notifications)
- All my command use full paths
Can anyone shed any light? I haven't yet found a useful combination of google terms..
are you editing using crontab -e ?
(crontab -l to list)
I appreciate that as a slackware user, your *nix skills are probably beyond mine, but I have no trouble with crontab on debian as root.
Yes, and it claims to install it properly, just that nothing ever happens.Originally Posted by kesomir
This is a normal user of course, but I don't see why it should be any different.I appreciate that as a slackware user, your *nix skills are probably beyond mine, but I have no trouble with crontab on debian as root.
Weird.
Seeing crontab -l would be useful..
Yes, I was just posting it and realised what I'd done..I redirect stdout to /dev/null, and typo'd. Rather than mailing me telling me I'd errored, it just dropped the job.
Works nowThanks guys
For anyone else who comes across this thread with issues cron related, I'd urge them NOT to redirect the output to /dev/null until they are certain the job is working as the annoying emails in this case would have revealed the issue.
Glad its working
And I'd urge you not to copy your old crontab like-for-like assuming the commands still work... prove them with the annoying emails first, then redirect
Install Webmin (Webmin), makes things like cron really easy to work with :-)
I'm not a great fan of webmin (purely personal choice), but this is also my workstation
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