On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 04:56:05PM +0100, Martin Dickopp wrote: > > You want to run `mkreport.deb' at 1:00am, and if the timezone in your > email header is correct, you appear to be 6 hours western of GMT. This > means that it is 1:00am GMT when it is 7:00pm of your local time. Therefore, > presumably something is wrong with your timezone configuration. > > - Is the environment variable `TZ' set? If so, to what? Is it already > set when cron is started? > - What's the content of /etc/timezone? > - What does /etc/localtime (a symlink) point to? > > You might need to run `tzconfig'. >
Thanks, Martin. Here is the information you are requesting. It all appears to be fine, except perhaps for the $TZ variable. Could that be causing the problem? I will try running 'tzconfig' again, but that still doesn't explain why 'crontab -e' doesn't appear to be working at all, right? milan:~# echo $TZ milan:~# more /etc/timezone US/Central milan:~# ls -l /etc/localtime lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Mar 7 17:14 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central ---------------- Nitebirdz http://www.sacredchaos.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
