>>>>> "MH" == Mohamed Haidar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MH> Joachim Schrod wrote:
Mohamed,
Please send your responses to the list, and not to me personally. This
way, others with similar problems can look up the discussion in the
list archives. If I know an answer, I will post it there as well. If I
don't know one or if I make errors in my recommendations, somebody
else can step in and point that out.
>> cron logs via syslog; there should be log records about the start of each
>> job in /var/log/messages. The exception is when your crontab line starts
>> with "-" (a hyphen), then job start logging is turned off. (In fact, when
>> your ipdetect cron job really works, you might want to turn off job start
>> logging that way.)
>>
>> If there are no respective log entries, execute "touch /etc/cron.d" to be
>> on the save side.
>> cron detects changes in files in cron.d only if the timestamp of the
>> directory /etc/cron.d changes as well. Alternatively, call "rccron
>> restart".
>>
>> After touching cron.d, there must be log entry that cron re-read the
>> crontab files, maybe one or two minutes later.
>>
>> Your crontab syntax itself is OK, that's not the cause.
>>
MH> It just refuses to work, I tried the above with no result, and also :
MH> crontab /etc/cron.d/IPdetect
That does not work. The syntax for (1) files in /etc/cron.d/ and (2)
files that are passed to the crontab command is different. (1) has the
userid in it, before the command, (2) has just the command.
MH> Am I missing something here. Could you give me an idiots step by step
MH> guide to how you would go about from scratch.
First thing: Does
grep cron /var/log/messages
output some (or many) lines?
If no, you need to tell us (with an email to the list, not to me ;-).
Then the investigation has to take a completely different path.
If yes, cron is running. Then, does
grep -i 'cron.*ipdetect' /var/log/messages
output anything?
Joachim
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