On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 06:38:45PM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote:

> The problem is that every once in a while (maybe every two months), 
> crond stops runing the user tasks - they don't execute and I don't even 
> see a log line in /var/log/messages that crond is trying to run them or 

Isn't there a separate /var/log/cron/* in Mandrake?

> any error regarding. In the mean time, the other crond tasks (including 
> the two other cron.d files) continue to run w/o a problem.
> 
> Here is an example of one of the user tasks file:
> 
> #SHELL=/bin/bash
> #PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
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> #HOME=/vhosts/coil/geek

Is it allowed to set a variable in cron.d files? Does it affect only the
entries in the same file?

> 
> */30 * * * *    geek    /vhosts/coil/geek/scripts/comix/daily.py

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