On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 09:22, Andrew Errington wrote: > 10 3 * * * ntpdate ntp.public.otago.ac.nz > 10 3 * * * touch ~ame/rootwashere
> 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? I don't see anything obvious ... however, you should probably try to get some debug output from ntpdate. Try */5 * * * * ntpdate -d ntp.public.otago.ac.nz && touch ~ame/rootwashere which will kick off every 5 minutes, produce copious output that might get emailed to root and thence yourself, and only touch the status file if the ntpdate command worked ... -jim
