Nitebirdz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 don't think so; not setting TZ is fine. My thought was that if you set TZ in a shell login script, it would be set in the shell where you ran the `date' command, but not in the init script which starts `cron'. This would have explained why `cron' and the shell use different timezones. However, if TZ is /not/ set in the shell, the problem must be something else. > I will try running 'tzconfig' again, but that still doesn't explain > why 'crontab -e' doesn't appear to be working at all, right? Right. I have no idea why it doesn't. Thinking about it, I have three ideas what you could check: - Could it be that you have accidentally embedded an invisible control character in the file? - Is there a newline character after the last line? - While you test `crontab -e', don't specify the next minute as time, but one minute after the next (i.e. two minutes after the current time). `cron' re-reads its crontabs once a minute, but only executes newly found jobs in the /next/ minute. BTW, does `crontab -e' work for users other than root? > 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 That looks fine to me. You already said that `date' shows the correct time. Does the command `date -u' show the correct GMT time (i.e. six hours ahead of your local time)? If you run `date' and `date -u' as cron jobs, do they also show the correct times? Martin -- ,--. Martin Dickopp, Dresden, Germany ,= ,-_-. =. / ,- ) http://www.zero-based.org/ ((_/)o o(\_)) \ `-' `-'(. .)`-' `-. Debian, a variant of the GNU operating system. \_/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
