On 27-Jan-99, 16:54 (CST), Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On a slink machine I have a crontab entry that should perform an rsync > of a site that I mirror around 22:40 my time (-0600). I have started to > get the reports from the job a little after 16:40 my time which just > happens to be 22:40 UTC.
If you have not yet restarted your cron daemon, could you add a command to your cron file that does 'date' and 'date -u'? Set it to run more than (your timezone offset) in the future...send me the output, the crontab entry, and if possible the extract of cron.log that shows the thing running. (If you are not currently logging cron, add this entry to your syslog.conf and then do 'kill -HUP /var/run/syslogd.pid' cron.* /var/log/cron.log The other interesting thing would be a list of the packages you have newly installed or upgraded recently -- Jason Gunthorpe thinks there may be a relationship. Anything you can think of would be a help... Assuming, of course, that the machine involved can be used in this way. If it can't be done, no problem, but if you see it again, please do as much as the above as you can before you restart cron. debian-devel folks: if any of you see similar behaviour in cron, and if you have the time, please try the above experiment. Thanks Steve
