What's wrong with this picture? Here is root's crontab:
10 3 * * * ntpdate ntp.public.otago.ac.nz 10 3 * * * touch ~ame/rootwashere The first line is supposed to update the time every day at ten past three in the morning, local time. I have run this command at the command line (as root) and it does exactly the right thing. When it is in a cron job it doesn't do anything. I know this because if I leave it a week and enter the command again my clock is corrected by a large amount. To check whether cron itself was working I added the second line. I expect the timestamp on the file 'rootwashere' in my home directory to be 03:10 that day every day I look at it, and it is. So, cron seems to be working and doing stuff at 03:10. ntpdate works from the command line. Why does ntpdate from root's crontab not appear to work? Thanks, Andy
