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The Tuesday 2007-05-08 at 15:13 -0500, Nick Jones wrote:
> I've been having problems with cron running cron.daily jobs. I can't
> for the life of me figure it out and it is embarrassing and
> frustrating.
You simply need to place an executable script in the cron.daily dir. These
are run by the "/usr/lib/cron/run-crons" script: you can examine it to see
how it works.
For example, if it is a laptop on batery, it will not run.
You could edit the file so that it logs a message to syslog when it runs
or runs something; loo for this line:
nice -n ${CRON_SCRIPT_NICE_VALUE} $SCRIPT >$TEMP_MSG 2>&1
You could add below a call to "logger" to log a messge of your choice for
each script.
Or you could define the variable "SYSLOG_ON_NO_ERROR" to yes
(/etc/sysconfig/cron).
>
> So I run service cron restart, it checks /var/spool/tabs/ and
> /etc/crontab. The crontab is the default and should run cron.daily
> scripts. I've read that I need a file cron.daily under lastrun (which
> is empty now) so it's timestamp can be used. I've tried manually
> creating this and it doesn't work.
That file /dissables/ the script for 24 hours.
> According to timestamps it is not reading any files in the system
> every 15 minutes and it should at least look in lastrun I believe.
It doesn't read, it checks timestamps of the directory. If this stamp
changes, then it reads those crontab files.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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