Lonnie,
  Found the problem.  The file /mnt/kd/crontabs/root had owner of "1000" in
group "root"
It appears that crond is sensitive to the file owner, so I did a chown to
change the owner to "root" and things started to work.

Looking at my /mnt/kd, I found dozens of files that have 1000 as the
owner.  I am guessing that when I did a restore basic configuration from
the web interface all the files were created by user 1000.

I wonder if there are any other files created by restore basic
configuration that are sensitive to ownership?

David

On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 11:47 AM Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com>
wrote:

> Hmmm...
>
> Using either "crontab -e" or the Edit tab and "Reload Cron for root" add
> this line:
> --
> * * * * * /bin/date >/tmp/foo
> --
> If you are not seeing it /var/log/messages see if /tmp/foo exists.
>
> If /tmp/foo is created then it may be some logging issue.
>
> This works for me.  I can't image what you have incorrect.
>
> Lonnie
>
>
>
> > On Jul 26, 2019, at 10:30 AM, David Kerr <da...@kerr.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Lonnie.
> >   Yes, crontab -l shows what I expect...
> >
> > pbx ~ # crontab -l
> > ##
> > ## logrotate - Do not remove, comment-out to disable
> > 00 04 * * * /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf >/dev/null 2>&1
> >
> > ##
> > ## Fossil daily auto-commit - Do not remove, un-comment to enable
> > 55 23 * * * /usr/bin/fossil-commit >/dev/null 2>&1
> > <cut off the rest>
> >
> > and yes /ver/spool/cron/crontabs is symlinked over to /mnt/kd.  And the
> crond process is running...
> >
> > Jul 26 09:55:17 pbx cron.info crond[1135]: crond (busybox 1.30.1)
> started, log level 8
> > But nothing is executing overnight !
> >
> > Thanks
> > David
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 10:39 AM Lonnie Abelbeck <
> li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com> wrote:
> > Hi David,
> >
> > Busybox crond uses "/var/spool/cron/crontabs"
> > --
> > # ls -l /var/spool/cron/crontabs
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            16 Jul 23 17:42
> /var/spool/cron/crontabs -> /mnt/kd/crontabs
> > --
> > which is (should be) symlinked to "/mnt/kd/crontabs"
> > --
> > # ls -l /mnt/kd/crontabs
> > total 4
> > -rw-------    1 root     root           358 Oct 29  2017 root
> > --
> >
> > Also see if "crontab -l" shows what you expect.
> >
> > BTW, Thanks, I did not know "/etc/cron.d" was being installed, we should
> remove that.
> >
> > Lonnie
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Jul 26, 2019, at 9:01 AM, David Kerr <da...@kerr.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > I just noticed since moving to a new system that my cron jobs are not
> running.  The configuration of the new system was established by doing a
> "restore basic configuration" from the system tab.  I cannot figure out why
> it is not working.
> > >
> > > crond is running (ps | grep "crond") and startup is logged in syslog.
> > > /var/spool/cron/crontabs exists, is link to...
> > > /mnt/kd/crontabs
> > > inside that is "root" which is file placed there by the restore
> configuration.  It has permissions 600
> > > /etc/cron.d also exists
> > > inside that is "e2scrub_all" which has permissions 644
> > >
> > > I tried changing permissions on "root" to 644 but that made no
> difference.
> > >
> > > What am I missing?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > David
> > >
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