[svlug] Cron not working

[David Rosenstrauch]

Try doing this instead to figure out whether the problem is the command 
or the cron task not firing:

1	5	*	*	*	echo testing

Any output from a cron job is supposed to get emailed to you, and since 
I don't think the echo command could possibly fail, you should get a 
"testing" email sent to you if the cron task runs successfully.  If you 
do, then the problem is the command line syntax.  If you donn't, then 
there's something weird going on that's causing the cron task not to run.

HTH,

DR


On 08/05/2009 12:47 PM, Skip Evans wrote:
> Looks like from this just cron, but it is a default pretty new 
> Ubuntu 9.04 install.
> 
> root at quad-core-1:/etc# ps waux | grep cron
> root      7734  0.0  0.0   3480  1036 ?        Ss   08:56 
> 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron
> root     15208  0.0  0.0   3336   788 pts/2    R+   11:44 
> 0:00 grep cron
> root at quad-core-1:/etc#
> 
> I've been reading pages on cron, but I've found nothing why 
> this particular job shouldn't run, and it does not show up in 
> syslog, while the jobs on /etc/crontab do.
> 
> Here's the entry
> 
> root at quad-core-1:/etc# crontab -l
> # m 	h  	dom 	mon 	dow   	command
> 1	5	*	*	*	/bin/cp /mnt/BSP_usr/backup/* /usr/backup/
> root at quad-core-1:/etc#
> 
> As I said, I can cut and paste the command from the listing 
> onto the command line and it runs fine.
> 
> Skip
> 
> Bill Ward wrote:
>> Are you running cron, or anacron?  I think the latter is default in ubuntu.
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Skip Evans<skip at bigskypenguin.com> wrote:
>>> Neither /etc/cron.allow or cron.deny exist, but as I
>>> understand it, if neither file exists only root can run cron,
>>> so it still should work?
>>>
>