On 2/4/02 at 8:53 AM, Victor McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > crontab would not correctly run the command. Same command in > multicron works. Strange - but at least it works now. > ------------- > # cat /etc/cron.d/multicron > #Periodic schedule for multicron. (Ping check, Space check, etc) > #Default: Every 15 minutes > */15 * * * * root /etc/multicron-p > 11 05,11,17,23 * * * root rdate -s 132.163.4.101 > 12 05,11,17,23 * * * root hwclock --systohc > > --
Entries in crontab should be pathed explicitly; what if you replace "rdate ..." with "/usr/bin/rdate ..." or whatever? Same for hwclock... Just a mini-soapbox: I never understood the need for "multicron-p" anyway: Oxygen has removed it some time ago. Multicron doesn't provide any new capabilities at all that I can see - cron can do just fine. Seemed like multicron just provided several layers of unnecessary indirection on top of cron and took up more disk space... Another note: rdate uses an old obsolete form of network time synchronization; I suspect more and more time servers may stop providing the service rdate uses (wuarchive.wustl.edu seems to have stopped...) If anyone's bundled it, ntpdate would be better to use... -- David Douthitt UNIX Systems Administrator HP-UX, Unixware, Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
