I'm going to ask what are probably dumb questions: Are any other cronjobs
running successfully? / Did you try restarting cron? (I know you aren't
*supposed* to need to do that.) Do /etc/cron.allow or cron.deny exist?
--
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Doctor: "Ah, ah that's a catch question. With a brain your size you
don't think, right?"
-- Dr. Who
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, tom carlile wrote:
>
> hello again.
> i am having some problems with cron. i have read the cron and crontab
> manpages.
> cron is started from init the way it should be. and when i run crontab -e,
> a userfile
> is indeed created under /var/spool/cron, but, the cronjobs don't run. a
> simple example:
>
> 15 2 * * * /usr/local/bin/touch /tmp/foofile
> set at 2:12am will not result in a foofile in /tmp.
>
> there is no goofy cron group or something i have to be a part of and i've
> tried
> setting up crontabs for root as well with the same result. i've let this go
> a day or
> so too with no result (i was thinking it was some timezone thing)
>
> i am running the frozen debs of debian2.2, i have tried re-installing the
> deb
> twice now. if anyone has any ideas they would be really appreciated.
>
>
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