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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 19:09:48 -0800
From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To: Jason Hunt <jhunt@blaz.homeip.net>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: cron job not running..
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On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 06:58:18PM -0600, Jason Hunt wrote:
> I have a cron job setup in freebsd that is not being
> executed for some reason.  I have used them time and time
> again in linux and on other bsd systems, but for some
> reason this is not executing -- there is nothing wrong
> with the path/executable.  Here is what I have in 
> /var/cron/tabs/roo# logcheck
> 
> 
> 0 * * * * /usr/local/etc/logcheck/logcheck.sh
> # seti@home
> 0 * * * * cd /root/setiathome ; ./setiathome -nice 19 > /dev/null 2>
> /dev/null
> # date & time
> 0 * * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate clock.isc.org > /dev/null 2> /dev/null

This should not be what a file in there looks like. You should not be
touching anything in /var/cron/tabs anyway. crontab(1) must be used.

> the top one doesn't seem to be running.  I just added it 
> today and even sent a HUP to cron.  I really do not want
> to reboot in order to get this working.. not sure whats going
> on here.. am I am missing something?

You did use crontab(1), right? If you don't use crontab(1), it won't
work. And I do not know what good a reboot qould do.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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