Re: /etc/cron.d directory

2003-06-12 Thread Mark Neidorff
Check permissions. Who owns the file. Is it executable? Whose cron is it run from? Mark On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Michael Mansour wrote: Hi, I'm trying to make use of this directory, as it's my understanding that cron drop files fro applications are placed in here and they should be the

Re: /etc/cron.d directory

2003-06-12 Thread Michael Mansour
644 resides on the cron file with root owner and root group. Not executable as it's 644. I'd expect it's run as root since I just dropped the file in there (created it in there and set permissions), although a crontab -l -u root doesn't show it listed, looking in /var/log/cron it does get loaded

/etc/cron.d directory

2003-06-11 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi, I'm trying to make use of this directory, as it's my understanding that cron drop files fro applications are placed in here and they should be the same format as those that would normally be placed in /etc/crontab. However I do this, and verify they are successfully loaded in /var/log/cron,