on Friday 03/16/2007 Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 06:06:53 -0400, John covici wrote:
>
> > And if I take the entries out of cron.d and put them into crontab they
> > are executed correctly and this is why I asked the question.
>
> Ignore my previous reply, whatever I was on, it had insufficient
> caffeine :(
>
> cron.d does indeed work here, provided the lines have exactly the same
> format as in crontab; e.g. "tail -n 1 /etc/crontab >/etc/cron.d/test"
> works as it should.
>
> Are you setting the execute bit on the files in cron.d? In the past, I've
> found that this prevents their being run.
Indeed the user exec bit is on, didn't know that it made any
difference, but I will try with it off.
Yep, that did it -- thanks much guys. Never heard of that before.
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